Martin Rowley wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7503060.stm

I remember hand-plotting the data from these ice-floe stations in the
60s.


And also the American ice-islands T3 and Arliss-2 I suppose? I think when I
first got involved with Arctic Ice conditions the Russian bases were SP-9
and SP-10 - they almost always had two in the Arctic. The American bases
were on ice islands (tabular bergs) and so were not at the risk of breakup
until they got evicted from the anticyclonic current in the western Arctic.
Those two bases existed on and off for twenty years or so, whereas the
Russian bases drifted across the Arctic towards the Fram Strait and would
have to be evacuated after about a couple of years.

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