A number of governments maintain permanent research stations in the Arctic. Also known as Arctic bases, polar stations or ice stations, these bases are widely distributed across the northern polar region of Earth.
Historically few research stations have been permanent. Most of them were temporary, being abandoned after the completion of the project or owing to lack of funding to continue the research. Some of these were military or listening posts created as a result of the proximity of the U.S. and Soviet Union to each other's landmass across the polar region.
Ice stations are constructed on land or on ice that rests on land, while others are drifting ice stations built on the sea ice of the high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean.[1]
Research stations
editDrifting ice stations
editIn fiction
edit- Ice Station Zebra (novel), by Alistair MacLean
- Ice Station Zebra (1968 film)
- Ice Station Zebra a song by Jack White on Boarding House Reach
- Ice Station, by Matthew Reilly
- Ice Station -- Impossible!, an episode of The Venture Bros.
- Ice Station Santa, an episode of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space
Gallery
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View of the Polish Polar Station, Hornsund.
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View of the Arctic research station on Wiese Island.
See also
edit- List of Arctic research programs
- Research stations in Antarctica
- List of northernmost settlements
- Winter-over syndrome
- Barneo, one-month tourist ice camp annual since 2002
References
edit- ^ "North Pole drifting stations (1930s-1980s)". Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Retrieved 30 April 2009.
- ^ "Alomar Observatory". Andoya Space.
- ^ "Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory". Earth System Research Laboratories. NOAA.
- ^ "Welcome to the Canadian High Arctic Research Station". Canada.ca. 6 September 2023.
- ^ On northernmost tip of Eurasian mainland, a showoff of Northern Fleet capacity; Navy vessels put ashore a group of Arctic soldiers at Cape Chelyuskin, 77° North, by Atle Staalesen, The Barents Observer
- ^ История полярных арктических станций с 30-х годов XX века (History of polar arctic stations from the 1930s in the XX century)
- ^ China-Iceland Joint Arctic Observatory Official Website
- ^ CHINA ICELAND ARCTIC RESEARCH OBSERVATORY EU-INTERACT
- ^ Churchill Northern Studies Centre
- ^ Czech Arctic Research Station
- ^ Stensdal, Iselin (2013). "Asian Arctic Research 2005-2012" (PDF). Fridtjof Nansen Institute. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 3, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
- ^ Igloolik Research Centre, Igloolik, Igloolik Island, NU
- ^ India Deploys its First Sub-Surface Ocean Moored Observatory in the Arctic
- ^ International Biological Station (IBS) “Lena-Nordenskiold”, Lena River Delta
- ^ Iqaluit Research Centre
- ^ Iqaluit Research Centre, Nunavut Arctic College (Nunavut Research Institute)
- ^ "Kevo Research Station - Turun yliopisto". Archived from the original on 2019-02-23. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
- ^ Kilpisjärvi Biological Station
- ^ University of Helsinki - Kilpisjärvi Biological Station
- ^ Kiruna Atmospheric and Geophysical Observatory
- ^ Swedish Institute of Space Physics
- ^ Kluane Lake Research Station
- ^ Labytnangi Ecological Research Station
- ^ McGill Arctic Research Station (MARS)
- ^ "The Netherlands Arctic Station".
- ^ BBC news report
- ^ UK Arctic Research Station
- ^ Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory
- ^ Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory, PEARL
- ^ Фотогалерея: 2004 - "Полярное Кольцо" - Местонахождение: 17 мая, Северная Земля, о.Большевик, м.Баранова, п/ст Примах
- ^ Samoylov Station
- ^ FMI ARC
- ^ Thule Research Station
- ^ Toolik Field Station
- ^ Luhn, Alec; Hunt, Elle (14 September 2016). "Besieged Russian Scientists Drive Away Polar Bears". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- ^ Tundra Ecosystem Research Station
- ^ "Tundra Ecosystem Research Station (TERS)". Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- ^ Ward Hunt Island Observatory Research Station; Centre d’études nordiques (CEN)/ Centre for Northern Studies
- ^ Western Arctic Research Centre
- ^ "Western Arctic Research Centre (WARC)". Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
- ^ CEN Whapmagoostui-Kuujuarapik Research Station
- ^ White Sea Biological Station (WSBS MSU)
- ^ <www.villumresearchstation.dk><Goodsite, M. Skov, H. Asmund, G. Bennike, O. Feilberg, A. Glasius, M. Gross, A. Hermanson, M.H. (2014) Pilot Study of Contaminants near Station Nord, a Military Airbase and Research Station in NE Greenland. NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sustainable Cities and Military Installations: Climate Change Impact on Energy and Environmental Security. Conference paper 177-98. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7161-1_10.>
- ^ Soviets gather geographic data in Arctic - CIA
- ^ Deserted Buor-Khaya Polar Station
- ^ Golomyanniy Station in Severnaya Zemlya
- ^ Книга: Два года на северной земле
- ^ "ДИКСОН — СНЕЖНОЙ АРКТИКИ СТОЛИЦА. К 90-ЛЕТИЮ НАЧАЛА НАБЛЮДЕНИЙ НА о. ДИКСОН". Archived from the original on November 21, 2011.
- ^ "Kigilyakh". Mapcarta. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
- ^ Popov Polar Station
- ^ Nuclear Explosion Monitoring (NEM)
- ^ F. Romanenko, O. Shilovtseva. Russian-Soviet polar stations and their role in the Arctic Seas exploration. Moscow State University, Geography Department, 1998
- ^ "Polyarnaya Stantsiya Solnechnaya". Mapcarta. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
- ^ Северный морской путь оснащается современными приборами навигации
- ^ Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T.
- ^ Bassford, Robin; Siegert, Martin; Dowdeswell, Julian; Oerlemans, Johannes; Glazovsky, Andrey; Macheret, Yuri (February 2006). "Quantifying the Mass Balance of Ice Caps on Severnaya Zemlya, Russian High Arctic. I: Climate and Mass Balance of the Vavilov Ice Cap". Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 38 (1). university of Colorado: 1–12. doi:10.1657/1523-0430(2006)038[0001:QTMBOI]2.0.CO;2. hdl:20.500.11820/b0c68834-118f-4e1f-8d83-4768fda0c71f. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- ^ Willem Barents Biological Station
- ^ State Nature Reserve “Wrangel Island
- ^ "Ministry of Natural Resources of the russian Federation – History of Wrangel Island". Archived from the original on 2005-02-27. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Enisei Ecological Station “Mirnoe”
- ^ Скалина, Ирина (10 July 2008). "Опасный дрейф; Полярников эвакуируют на судне "Михаил Сомов"" (web). Российская газета. Retrieved 2008-07-12. (Russian/English) Skalina, Irina (July 10, 2008). "A dangerous drift; Polarnik evacuated on the ship "Mikhail Somov"" (web). Google Translation. Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Retrieved 2008-07-12.
- ^ "MOSAiC - eoportal directory".
External links
edit- Media related to Scientific stations in the Arctic at Wikimedia Commons
- A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
- Centre d'études nordiques (CEN)
- Russian Arctic Weather Stations - Julie Stephenson