Polar Record
- Polar Record / Volume 11 / Issue 70 / January 1962, pp 31-34
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400052530 (About DOI), Published online: 27 October 2009
Articles
Overland and air transport facilities of Soviet Antarctic expeditions
Yuri A. Arshenevskiy*
When research under the IGY programme began in Antarctica, the Soviet Union undertook the task of studying vast areas of the sector south of the Indian Ocean.
In 1956, the First Combined Antarctic Expedition headed by M. M. Somov set up the main base, Mirny observatory, on the Davis Sea coast. This was followed by five subsequent expeditions inland during which new stations have been established hi the heart of Antarctica.
(Received June 24 1961)
Footnotes
* Northern Sea Route Administration, USSR Ministry of Merchant Marine [Glavsevmorput' Ministerstva Morskogo Flota].
