The airfield at the research station "Ice Base Cape Baranov" received the first flight of the season with scientists from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI). Polar explorers of the high-latitude expedition "Sever-2024" arrived at the station by a special flight from the Khatanga settlement on the Taimyr Peninsula to Bolshevik Island of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. This was reported by the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia.
"The expedition to the station included 11 scientists whose task will be to continue high-latitude Arctic research of modern changes in the high-latitude climate system of the Arctic region," the Ministry's website says.
Specialists will conduct comprehensive glaciological, hydrological, paleographic, medical, permafrost, ecological and hydrochemical studies.
"The Ice Base Cape Baranov station will also continue to perform annual cycles of observations and research in the field of meteorology, aerorology, geophysics, glaciology, oceanography and air pollution," the Ministry of Natural Resources said. The research projects were developed and are being implemented in cooperation with the A.I. Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, the V.I. Ilyichev Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other scientific organizations.
In addition to researchers, the special flight delivered to the station scientific equipment, food, parcels and letters from relatives and friends of the polar explorers who have been working at the scientific base for more than seven months.
"Ice Base Cape Baranov" was founded in 1986 on Bolshevik Island of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago as a research field stationary observatory, where up to 80 scientists worked simultaneously. The station had an airfield that accepted Il-76 and An-22 "Antey" aircraft. The station and its airfield were mothballed in 1996, but in 2013 scientific research resumed - polar explorers landed there after the closure of the drifting station "North Pole-40", from where they delivered fuel, food and other equipment. Since then and to this day, the station has been conducting year-round scientific research and observations in various fields.
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