The first flight of the current season with scientists from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute was accepted at the airfield of the Cape Baranova ice base scientific station, the AARI press service reported on the official portal of AARI on April 16. Internet.
A special flight of the AN-26B-100 aircraft from the village of Khatanga on the Taimyr Peninsula brought the seasonal polar explorers of the North-2024 expedition to Bolshevik Island in the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. 11 scientists arrived at the Cape Baranova ice base station to continue investigating contemporary changes in the high-latitude climate system of the Arctic region.
The development and implementation of research projects is carried out in collaboration with the Main Geophysical Observatory that bears its name. AI Voeikova, Pacific Oceanological Institute named after. VI Ilyichev Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other scientific organizations. Scientists will carry out comprehensive glaciological, hydrological, paleographic, medical, permafrost, environmental and hydrochemical studies. The station will also continue annual cycles of observations and research in the fields of meteorology, aerology, geophysics, ice science, oceanography and air pollution.
The plane also delivered the necessary scientific equipment, food and packages from family and friends to the station for the polar explorers who have been working at the scientific base for more than seven months. Two members of the expedition’s winter crew left the station on the return flight.
“The airfield of the Cape Baranova ice base scientific station was put into operation last year, but it has already been repeatedly used as a bastion for organizing transport and logistics operations. Even for the delivery of polar explorers and cargo to the “North Pole – 41” drift station and the “Barneo” camp.said AARI director Alexander Makarov.
He added that in the future this airfield could be used as an air base for the development of navigation along the Northern Sea Route and in rescue operations of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The air site is equipped with modern lighting, signaling and radio navigation equipment, allowing it to operate in polar night conditions. Here you can receive wheeled chassis aircraft such as An-74, An-72, An-26 and An-12. In the future, it is planned to expand the airfield’s capabilities to accommodate heavy Il-76 aircraft.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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