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IN recent years the Soviet Union has paid a great deal of attention to the exploration of its arctic territories and the investigation of commercial sea routes north of Siberia. The Society for Cultural Relations between the Peoples of the British Commonwealth and the U.S.S.R. has recently directed attention to the activities of Soviet arctic expeditions in 1932. Most important were the establishment of observatories at Cape Chelyuskin, at Rudolph Island in Franz Josef Land, in Novaya Zemlya and at the mouth of the Lena River. The Rudolph Island station is to be the base of a thorough exploration of Franz Josef Land and the little-known seas to the east. Several ice-breakers were engaged in hydro-graphical work in the Barents and Kara Seas while the Sibiriak, which made the north-east passage from Archangel to Bering Strait, reports that ice congestion in the. western part of the passage can be avoided by passing north of Northern Land. It is by no means certain, however, that this route could be relied on every year in maintaining communication between White Sea ports and the Lena River, though the possibility is worth investigating.
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Russian Arctic Expeditions. Nature 131, 797 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131797b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131797b0