Russian Arctic expedition completed
The Russian “Arctica-2008” expedition is completed after more than one month in the Arctic. The expedition members yesterday returned to Arkhangelsk with the research vessel “Akademik Fyodorov”.
The “Akademik Fyodorov” has in the course of the 36 days of the expedition sailed more than 13,000 km. The research results of the expedition are reported to have been more comprehensive than last year’s “Arctica-2007” expedition, Newsru.com reports with reference to Itar-Tass. In the course of the mission, the researchers established the North Pole-36 research station on an ice floe. 18 researchers will now spend up a year on the ice floe doing Arctic studies. -The “Arctica-2008” has been a continuation of last year’s mission, expedition leader Vladimir Sokolov said to the news agency. –We have had the chance to monitor the destructive processes in the northern ice layers, he addes. -Last year, the level of ice destruction was unprecedented in the history of monitoring. This yerar the process was not proceeding to the same extent, the research leader said.
