Currents in Long Strait, Arctic Ocean

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Coachman, L.K., Rankin, D.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1968
• Subjects: Athapascan Indians; Subsistence; Kuskokwim River region; Alaska; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Burton; Burton Island; Chukchi Sea; East Siberian Sea; Arctique*; Chukchi; Kuskokwim; Mer de Sibérie orientale; Océan Arctique
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66294

Reports and discusses current measurements made Aug 1966 from USS Burton Island (AGB-1) in the strait which separates Vrangelya Island from the Siberian mainland. A significant tidal oscillation of the currents is caused by the semidiurnal tide wave of the Arctic Ocean, propagating eastward through...