The Soviet Expedition to the Central Arctic, 1954

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Webster, Clifford J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1954
• Subjects: Age; Caucasians; Geological time; Geology; Glaciology; Granite; History; Ice islands; Ice shelves; Indians; Inuit; Metamorphism (Geology); Movement; Population; Size; Social surveys; Structural geology; Arctic Ocean; N.W.T; Nunavut; Nunavik; Québec; Alaska; Greenland; Russian Arctic; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; United States Range; Arctic; North Pole; Arctic Basin; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66879

Contains account based on published Russian material. An historical outline of expeditions to the central Arctic between 1937 and 1950 is given. The 1954 expedition, undertaken by the Soviet government and directed by V.F. Burkhanov, consisted of two drift stations (central Arctic station directed b...