During a further flight northward, the 9/10 ice became less concentrated as 82° north was 

 approached, within the limits of visibility of the aircraft, becoming 7/10, and the edges of the floes 

 became rounded. Small fields, small floes and broad leads with ice of small size prevailed. 



The reasons behind the ice conditions observed by Akkuratov in 1939 and 1940 have not yet 

 been analyzed. 



LITERATURE: 37, 62, 77, 88. 



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