Nauchno-ekspeditsionnoye the vessel "Academician Fedorov": - Since February 27 the vessel follows strong from the Progress station to port Cape Town. It is planned that the vessel will come into the port during the day on March 9.
- As of 08:00 MOSCOW TIME on March 9 the vessel was in a point with coordinates 64 °06’ SL, 38 °20’ EL, expecting decrease of wind on the port Cape Town. During the day there was a disembarkation to the coast of participants of expedition with use of two boats "Zodiac". During works employees selected biological tests, carried out geomorphological and paleogeografichesky researches near the lake Hamberg. As selected an ice core on a glacier Nordenskold. - on March 4 in the morning the vessel passed br into a bay of Saint-Andrus where stopped in 2 km from the coast. Here disembarkation to the coast of glaciologists, biologists and geomorphologists for researches on Heaney's glacier, and also sea terraces and thin ridges of glaciers of Heaney and Buxton was carried out.
- In the second half of day on March 4 the vessel began movement to the Southern Sandvichevy skeletons in storm conditions with a wind to 25 m/s and waves up to 9 m high.
- on March 6 since morning, at decrease in speed of a wind to 10-15 m/s, executed full oceanographic station at a depth up to 1500 m, and in the evening of the same day the vessel approached to the South Sandwich Islands.
- on March 7-8 the vessel carried out planned works near the South Sandwich Islands then headed to final object of researches of this flight - to Bouvet Island.
- As of 08:00 MOSCOW TIME on March 9 the vessel was in a point with coordinates 59 °00’ SL, 16 °50’ z.d.,
Nauchno-issledovatelskoye the vessel "Academician Alexander Karpinsky": - the Vessel completely finished on March 6 programs of works on the range to the sea of the Commonwealth and the beginning an exit from Antarctic, having headed for Cape Town port Cape Town where it according to the plan has to come 18.03.17.
- As of 08:00 MOSCOW TIME on March 9 the vessel was in a point with coordinates 60 °03’ SL, 55 °42’ EL.
At the Antarctic stations
At Vostok: - v station a framework of glyatsio-drilling operations continued the inventory kernokhranilishcha wells 3G, 358 cores are described;
- continued works on clearing from snow of objects of infrastructure of station.
At Progress: - vedutsya station of work on reorganization of warehouses of open storage;
- on March 7 the area of station left a vessel of the Chinese expedition "Shillong" then at all stations located around hills Larserman (India, China and Russian Federation), began autonomous work.
To Novolazarevskaya: - 6 stations of March from station on barrier base there was next, the 10th since the beginning of 61 zimovochny RAE a sled and caterpillar campaign (SGP 6-10). 4 units of transport equipment take part in a campaign and 8 people. Freights are delivered to barrier base for the subsequent export from Antarctic onboard NES "Academician Fedorov". Surveyors also take part in a campaign from seasonal structure 62 RAE who carry out planned works around barrier base.
- the complex of works on preservation of airfield objects and repair of airfield transport equipment Proceeds.
- At station continue works of group of the Belarusian expedition on own scientific programs.
to At Bellinsgauzen: - 4 station of March was given help of the Brazilian expedition: on the station Amderma barge the heavy machinery from the coast to a board of the Brazilian vessel is delivered.
At Mirny: - provodyatsya station of work on transportation of fuels and lubricants from oil depot in account capacity on the cape Mabus and others planned economic raboty.
Pogodnyye conditions at the Antarctic stations for last week:
- East: air temperature is from-58,1 °C to-40,0 °C a wind to 15 m/s;
- Mirnyi: air temperature is from-15,9 °C to - 2,0 °C, a wind to 26 m/s;
- Progress: air temperature is from-11,9 °C to-1,9 °C, a wind to 20 m/s;
- Novolazarevskaya: air temperature from - 8,0 °C to %2B0,7 °C, a wind to 34 m/s;
- Bellingshausen: air temperature is from-4,2 °C to %2B3,3 °C, a wind to 23 m/s.
Russian Antarctic expedition
Press service AANII
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