The FRAM expeditions: Arctic Ocean studies from floating ice, 1979–82

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Johnson, Leonard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1983
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Antarctic; Arctic Ocean; Laptev Sea; Greenland; Fridtjof; Burton; Bedford; Burton Island; Antarc*; Norsk Polarinstitutt; Polar Record; Scott Polar Research Institute
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400021999; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400021999

In May 1982, with the successful conclusion of FRAM IV, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) completed the FRAM series of observations from ice floe stations in the eastern Arctic (Fig 1)—expeditions initiated each spring from 1979 to 1982. The programme developed from an unsuccessful attempt by the A...