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THE Geographical Department of the Northern Sea Route Administration (U.S.S.R.) has sent out the icebreaker Sedov on a new expedition to the northeastern part of the Kara Sea. It will be remembered that the Sedov returned to Murmansk on January 29, 1940, after a remarkable drift in the Arctic of twenty-seven months duration. The head of the new expedition is Mr. V. I. Vorobyev. The purpose of the expedition is to study one of the most important parts of the Northern Sea Route in the Kara Sea— from Izvestia Tsik Islands to Russky Island. The total length of this part is about two hundred nautical miles. The expedition is to carry out hydrographic and hydrological research: it will make systematic soundings of the depths of the sea, study the currents, wind regime, ice conditions, and carry out magnetic observations.
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The Sedov on a New Expedition. Nature 146, 458 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146458c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146458c0