DRIFTING ARCTIC STATION
SOVIET PLANS
(Rec. 11 p.m.) OTTAWA. June 6. The Soviet Union plans to launch another floating scientific station in Arctic waters, and may already have dene so, it was reported today. The new station will be known as North Pole 6. It might easily do what North Pole 3 did—drift into Canadian The Soviet Embassy said Mr V I Burkhanov, head of the Soviet northern sea route administration had announced plans for the new station. North Pole 6 brings to three the number of floating stations known to be operated by the Soviet in the Polar waters. The two others. North Poles 4 and 5. have never floated into Canadian waters. Mr Burkhanov said that the new station would drift on its ice floe in»o the area of ‘‘the pole of relative inaccessibility.” Arctic experts said that meant the Beaufort Sea. just north of Alaska and Canada’s western Arctic.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27989, 8 June 1956, Page 11
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