RUSSIANS IN THE ANTARCTIC VISIT A UNITED STATES ICEBREAKER.—Photographs taken recently when the United States icebreaker Burton Island paid a one-day goodwill call at Mirny, on the Knox coast of the Antarctic continent, where the Russian expedition has its principal base. TOP LEFT: Members of the Russian expedition going out to the icebreaker in a landing craft. TOP RIGHT: A general view of the Mirny base. BOTTOM LEFT: Russian scientists in front of a helicopter on the deck of the Burton Island. BOTTOM RIGHT: The visitors show a liking for American magazines. They took back to their base more than 400 back-dated numbers. United States Navy photographs.

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28514, 18 February 1958, Page 15

RUSSIANS IN THE ANTARCTIC VISIT A UNITED STATES ICEBREAKER.—Photographs taken recently when the United States icebreaker Burton Island paid a one-day goodwill call at Mirny, on the Knox coast of the Antarctic continent, where the Russian expedition has its principal base. TOP LEFT: Members of the Russian expedition going out to the icebreaker in a landing craft. TOP RIGHT: A general view of the Mirny base. BOTTOM LEFT: Russian scientists in front of a helicopter on the deck of the Burton Island. BOTTOM RIGHT: The visitors show a liking for American magazines. They took back to their base more than 400 back-dated numbers. United States Navy photographs.