In March 1927, Wilkins and pilot Carl Ben Eielson explored the drift ice north of Alaska, touching down upon it in Eielson's airplane in the first land-plane descent onto drift ice.
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During the following days several vessels of the Swedish Coast Guard arrived at the scene and began the difficult task of collecting and separating oil that had mixed with drift ice.
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In March 1927, Wilkins and pilot Carl Ben Eielson explored the drift ice north of Alaska, touching down upon it in Eielson's airplane in the first land-plane descent onto drift ice.
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He is ordered by Admiral Garvey ( Lloyd Nolan ) to rescue the personnel of " Drift Ice Station Zebra ", a British civilian scientific weather station moving with the ice pack.
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The association of Pytheas'observations with drift ice has long been standard in navigational literature, including Nathaniel Bowditch's " American Practical Navigator ", which begins Chapter 33, " Ice Navigation ", with Pytheas.
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The title refers to the hypothesis of 1, 500-year climate cycles in the Holocene first postulated by Gerard C . Bond, mainly based on petrologic tracers of drift ice in the North Atlantic.
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Lake Huron ice fields, known as drift ice, which in this lake can be as much as two or more feet thick and measure thousands of acres in size, are moved by wintertime currents.
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The first stations to use drift ice as means of scientific exploration of the Arctic originated in the Soviet Union in 1937, when the first such station in the world, North Pole-1, started operations.
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"The connection we observed is that the increases in icebergs and drift ice occur at the same times as the increase in ( carbon-14 ), which means the sun was weaker, " said Bond.
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An idea to use the drift ice for the exploration of nature in the high latitudes of the Arctic Ocean belongs to Fridtjof Nansen, who fulfilled it on " Fram " between 1893 and 1896.
