Franz Josef Land

The chronicle tells about the field season of the Arctic expedition to study the historical, cultural and natural environment of the Franz Josef Land archipelago. 1 box View of the islands of the Franz Josef Land archipelago from the ship. Gall Island: an expedition boat approaches the shore. Rocks at Cape Tegetthof. Members of the Arctic expedition on the shore, among them the leader Pyotr Vladimirovich Boyarsky. Ruins of the wintering camp of the American expedition of V. Uelman (1898-1899). Remains of camping equipment, utensils, crates with food in the ruins of the camp. P.V. Boyarsky examines the walls of the winter quarters. Hooker Island. Entrance to the bay of the island. Rubini's rock. The members of the expedition disembark on the coastal fast ice. A mothballed polar station on the coast of the island. Abandoned buildings of the station: outbuildings, a residential building, a radio station. Astronomical sign of the expedition G.Ya. Sedov, installed in 1913. Cross on the grave of mechanic I.A. Zander on the shore of the island; a propeller-monument on the grave of the polar pilot N.M. Iesuke. A scientist works with a theodolite on the shore. Members of the expedition are on a boat to the hydrographic vessel "Ivan Kireev", standing in the sea. Table-shaped iceberg. McClintock Island. On the shore are the remains of a stone-built hut in the camp of the American expedition of A. Fiala (1903-1905). Personal belongings of the members of the American expedition. Icebergs in the sea. 2 box Archipelago Franz Josef Land. The members of the expedition are discussing the route of the hydrographic vessel of the Arkhangelsk hydrobase "Ivan Kireev" on the map in the navigator's cabin, among them P.V. Boyarsky. The captain of the ship A.A. Kataev and the helmsman of the watch in the wheelhouse. P.V. Boyarsky in the navigator's cabin; on the bridge; on the deck of the ship. The members of the expedition stand on the deck, take notes, photograph the islands of the archipelago. Bell Island. Whale vertebra, walrus tusk on the shore. The members of the expedition land on the coastal fast ice of the island. The boardwalk "Eira's House" in the winter quarters of the British expedition of B. Lee Smith (1881). Scientists sketch out views of the island; take soil samples.

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1992