

Figure 155. Drift of ships together with ice in the Arctic Basin. 



c) drift of icebreaker Sedov in 1937 to 1940 for a distance of about 1500 miles from the 

 New Siberian Islands to the strait between Spitzbergen and Greenland. 



From this list and from figure 155 we see that the drifts of the ships Zhannetta and Maud on 

 the one hand, and those of the Fram and Sedov on the other, while differing in details, generally- 

 repeat each other. This testifies to the stability of the general movement of ice from east to west 

 along the continental slope of the Eurasian continent - a movement which Lomonosov wrote about 

 and which Nansen employed so brilliantly for his expedition on the Fram. 



2. The drift of the ship St . Anna in 1912 to 1914 from the Kara Sea, and drifts of icebreakers 

 Sadko, Sedou and Malygin in 1937 to 1938 from the Laptev Sea, demonstrate the transfer of ice 

 from these seas into the central part of the Arctic Basin and their subsequent conjunction with the 

 general drift of arctic ice from east to west. The same phenomenon is confirmed by figure 156, on 

 which are shown, according to Vize, the most probable routes of buoys thrown onto the ice by 

 Soviet expeditions . 



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