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Life on a Drifting Station40 viewsAs a rule, each North Pole camp served as the base camp for the activity of the high-latitude Sever ("North" in Russian) airborne data collecting expeditions. Image credit: EWG.
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Life on a Drifting Station32 viewsTwo station members walking through the base camp of the high-latitude Sever expedition at Zhokov Island. Image credit: EWG.
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Life on a Drifting Station28 viewsThe main airplane, Ilyushin 14 (IL-14) used for transporting personnel and cargo. Image credit: EWG.
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Life on a Drifting Station22 viewsA biplane landing near an iceberg, off the Laptev Sea. Image credit: EWG.
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Life on a Drifting Station17 viewsSunset at a North Pole station. The large antennae are for studying ionospheric processes. Image credit: EWG.
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Arctic Buildings17 viewsHarsh and extreme arctic conditions required special considerations when trying to build any type of structure. Heavy machinery was used to construct and maintain the runways that allowed planes to deliver supplies. When not used for runways, tractors such as this one would be used for other construction around the camp. Image credit: EWG.
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Arctic Buildings17 viewsEven if materials didn't need to be housed within a building, storing them outside also posed difficulties. Supplies were stacked on fuel barrels to elevate them above the snow and to protect them from melt water during summer. Image credit: EWG.
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Arctic Buildings18 viewsAround some buildings in the summertime, "pedestaling" occurs because structures shade the ice and snow beneath from the sun's heat. Each subsequent summer adds to the height of the pedestal. This building on NP-22 reached 5 meters in height after seven years. Image credit: EWG.
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Arctic Buildings18 viewsAlthough summers posed the hazards of melt water, the winters posed problems with deeply drifting snow. In winter, windblown snow had to be cleared from the entrance of this aerological (radiosounding) hut. Image credit: EWG.
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Ice Hazards17 viewsDuring summer, melt ponds posed hazards to the camp. Here, a station member rows an inflatable raft in a melt pond that has formed in the middle of the camp at NP-6. Image credit: EWG.
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