Drifting ice station
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A drifting ice station is a temporary or semi-permanent facility built on an ice floe. During the Cold War the Soviet Union and the United States maintained a number of stations in the Arctic Ocean on
Soviet drifting ice station depicted on a 1955 stamp.
"North Pole" platform at the outfitting pier of the Admiralty Shipyards, St. Petersburg, July 2022
Project Coldfeet
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Project Coldfeet was a 1962 Central Intelligence Agency operation to extract intelligence from an abandoned Soviet Arctic drifting ice station. Due to the nature of its abandonment as the result of un
The B-17G N809Z which had been used in the project.