The Shipping Crisis in the Soviet Eastern Arctic at the Close of the 1983 Navigation Season

During September 1983 an unusually early freeze-up and persistent northwesterly winds that drove heavy multi-year ice into Proliv Longa and against the north coast of Chukotka resulted in a critical situation with regard to shipping in the Soviet eastern Arctic. Ports such as Zelenyy Mys and Mys Shm...

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Published in:ARCTIC
Main Authors: Barr, William, Wilson, Edward A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1985
Subjects:
Harbours
Ice navigation
Icebreakers
Marine transportation
Russian Arctic waters
Arctic
Bering Strait
Indigirka
Kosa Dvukh Pilotov
Pacific
Pevek
Proliv Longa
Shmidta
Chukotka
Icebreaker
Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65153

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