ARCTIC CHRONOLOGY

 

A Postal History Gallery of Related Events

1992-93





Polar Conference
1992

A conference on the administration of the Russian Northern Seaways was held in Moscow on January 12, 1992, and sponsored by the ASPOL organization.

 

A Chartered Tourist Voyage to the North Pole

The first tourist voyage to the Pole in 1992 was chartered by Stanford University aboard the SOYUZ. The trip left Murmansk in early July and visited Franz Josef Land before reaching the Pole on July 13th. The final leg of the trip passed Franz Josef Land again and then followed the North Sea route through the Kara Sea to Murmansk.

 

Arctic 93

The joint Russian / German cooperative study of the trans-polar drift in the Kara Sea was supported by the PFS POLARSTERN.

 


Circumnavigation of Greenland

A unique tourist cruise to circumnavigate Greenland was scheduled in 1993. The icebreaker KHLEBNIKOF was trapped by the ice at Nares Strait. A canadian vessel was waiting to escort it from the other side of the strait.

The icebreaker YAMAL was called to assist it and was able to open a route for their escape.


The Rescue of the KHLEBNIKOV
September 3, 1993

 

 



ABOVE: MAP PREPARED BY ANDREI MASANOV, YAMAL ICE PILOT
RIGHT: DAILY PASSENGER PROGRAM, YAMAL

 

A tourist cruise intending to circumnavigate Greenland was blocked by ice and required assistance.

 

 

Krenkel Observatory
Mailed from the Krenkel Observatory at Franz Josef Land. Ernst Krenkel became a leader in development of long range wireless in the Arctic. He was a member of the first Ice Station at the North Pole in 1938 and became the technical advisor to the Soviet Union until his death in 1985.

 

(Exhibition pieces courtesy of George Hall)