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
Fletcher's Ice Island
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Fletcher's Ice Island or T-3 was an iceberg discovered by U.S. Air Force Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher. Between 1952 and 1978 it was used as a staffed scientific drift station that included huts, a power
Drifting ice station
…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 floes such as Fletcher's Ice Island for research and espionage, the latter of which were often little more than quickly constructed shacks. Extracting personnel from these stations proved…
Wrecked USAF C-47 aircraft on Fletcher's Ice Island (photo taken in June 1972)