• Main Author: W. G. Metcalf
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Svalbard; Arctic Basin; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.494.685; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic7-2-108.pdf

discovery of the Lomonosov Range and their efforts at mapping and studying the implications of the range have been described. It may be pointed out that the existence of this submarine range has been inferred and, indeed, actually observed in part by American scientists in the course of studies in the Arctic Basin since 1951. It is interesting that scientists of the two countries working, apparently, from entirely different approaches arrived at identical conclusions concerning this underwater feature. During ice landings with aircraft north of Alaska in April 1951, Crary et al. (1952a) found the ocean basin in the Beaufort Sea to have a depth of 3,838 metres at 74”45N., 15Oo55W. Worthington (1953) recorded a depth of 2,950 m. about 300 miles north of this point in March 1952. From the oceanographic data gathered by Worthington, the deep water in the Beaufort Sea was shown to be warmer by 0.35”C than that in the ocean north of Siberia and Svalbard as described by Nansen (1902) and Sverdrup and Soule (1933).