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EURASIA the One Time in the Year We Get Bananas EURASIA The One Time in the Year We Get Bananas OE Watch Commentary: Bootlaces, Source: Atle Staalesen, “Ships loaded with goods and military equipment soon on their printer toner, ammunition, batteries, way to new Arctic bases,” The Independent Barents Sea Observer, 15 May 2018. https:// toothpaste – the list of expendables goes on thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2018/05/ships-loaded-goods-and-military-equipment- and on. In some bases in the Arctic, there soon-their-way-new-arctic-bases is one big shipment a year and hopefully, …The goods include winter supplies, much of it fuel. The first shipments will be made the logistician or the packer did not forget in early summer to military posts along the coast of the Kola Peninsula and the White anything. The pack ice may be getting thinner, Sea. Later, when the ice retreats, the bases in the Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land and but there are places in the Arctic that are only Severnaya Zemlya will be supplied. The remote base of Kotelny in the New Siberian Islands accessible during limited seasonal windows. will get the shipments only in August-September… Ice breakers are helpful, but it is considerably Military supply vessels are capable of delivering major amounts of goods to Arctic coastlines easier to let the seasons assist the effort. without infrastructure [wharfs, piers and cranes]. Occasionally, smaller vessels are used Moving the goods ship-to-shore is also an to bring the goods from big supply ships to the coast. Also aircraft are used in the supply exercise in patience and seamanship and the effort... Russia has, over the last few years, invested heavily in the development of new and ships do not sail away empty. The garbage upgraded Arctic bases. Among the biggest projects are the new facilities at Kotelny in the and containers do not stay in a dump on the New Siberian Island. The base was reportedly ready to be handed over to the Northern Fleet island. Fuel drums are flattened and loaded in mid-December 2016. Included in that project is the upgraded Temp airfield and the 12,000 and all the detritus is returned to Murmansk square meter big trefoil-shaped Severny Klever housing and administration complex. for further processing. It is not a glamorous In April 2017, the 14,000 square meters military complex at the Nagurskoye base on mission, but essential to maintaining control Aleksandra Land, the northernmost of the islands of Franz Josef Land, was completed and in the Arctic. End OE Watch Commentary ready for use. (Grau) “The first shipments will be made in early summer to military posts along the coast of the Kola Peninsula and the White Sea. Later, when the ice retreats, the bases in the Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya will be supplied.” Good Job For a Drifter-Must Enjoy Bracing Climes OE Watch Commentary: The Soviets established drifting ice stations on large Arctic “The floating base will be 67.8 meters long and 22.5 meters wide…with ice floes starting in the 1930s. Their purpose a deadweight of 7,500 tons. The top speed will be ‘at least 10 knots.’” was to monitor the weather and conduct experiments on the Arctic Ocean. The first Source: Atle Staalesen, “This is Russia’s new North Pole base,” The Independent Barents drifting ice station was the SS Chelyuskin, Sea Observer, 24 April 2018. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2018/04/russias-new- which was a Soviet steamship that was trapped north-pole-base in Arctic ice in 1934. In addition to keeping During the signing ceremony, Roshhydromet leader Maksim Yakovenko stated “Today’s the 111 sailors and passengers alive, and event marks the start of a principally new and comprehensive phase in the battle for building and rebuilding airfields, the stranded scientific knowledge in the Arctic under condition of melting ice…. We are proud that Chelyuskinites kept radio contact with the Russia is here in the lead. The new Arctic platform is made for year-round complex authorities and conducted meteorological scientific studies in high altitudes in the Arctic Ocean.” observations and studies. The ship was crushed Project preparations for the mobile base has been on-going for the last two years. The by pack ice, but the survivors became national Admiralty Yard has built several of Russia’s polar research vessels, among them the heroes. In 1937, the Soviets established North Academician Treshnikov in 2012. Pole 1, the first intentional drifting station to The floating base will be 67.8 meters long and 22.5 meters wide…with a deadweight of conduct year-round research in oceanology, 7,500 tons. The top speed will be “at least 10 knots.” The preliminary investment costs meteorology, aerology, hydrochemistry, ice amount to $116 million. The North Pole platform will replace Arctic research stations studies, hydro-physics, geo-magnetic studies based on drifting ice floes. and marine biology. In 1954, they began posting The Soviet Union and later Russia has had floating research stations in the Arctic since multiple ice stations in the Arctic. These stations 1937, with a break in the years 1991-2003. During the last couple of years, it has become amassed a body of scientific knowledge about more and more difficult to find ice floes solid enough to hold a station. The last “real” ice the Arctic. The new base will not be built on station, “North Pole-40”, was established in October 2012 and had to be evacuated in May ice islands, but will drift, or move, to continue 2013, because the ice floe that the base was placed on, started to break apart. the scientific exploration of the Arctic. End OE Watch Commentary (Grau) OE Watch | June 2018 55.
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