Three More Stations Will be Set Up in Frozen North Archangel, July 18.
The drifting North Pole station reports, that on July 17 the winterers there were located at 88 deg. 9 min. north latitude, 2 deg. 30 min. west long-titude. In all the ice-floe has drifted about 330 kilometres in a broken line.
Three new polar stations will be set up in the Soviet Arcties this year for scientific observations and research work.
A colony of scientists will pitch a camp on one of the islands of the De Long Archipelago. Since the discovery of these islands by the brave American, Captain De Long. they have actually been very little explored. The colony may possibly settle in high latitudes, on the mysterious Sanikov Land, which will be sought by an expedition soon. The personnel of this station has been chosen from among experienced polar explorers end will be under the supervision of M. Mukhanov.
Of no less importance for polar navigation will be the second station for the south coast of Kotelny Island in the Sannikov Straits. This station will make it possible to study the feasibility of regular marine traffic through the Sannikov Straits. M. Ruzov, has been appointed chief of this station, The third new polar station will be set up for the frst time at Cope Chaplino in Providence Pay to organize coastal hydro-biological Observations, deep water stations, and the observation of the drifting ice. A special apparatus, the photoheliograph, makes it possible to photograph the sun. Automatic balloons will be systematically sent up from ihe station to the higher strata of the atmosphere. The station will also study the properties of the hot springs, the temperature of which reaches 90.6 deg. F. The chief of this station will be M.
Kapitokhin. Together with these three new stations, 57 polar stations ioj ioni RUM SHE Rone po pressure Cue lb. and in this SEARCH FOR MRS. PUTNAM ection it will; be remembere no one noted steam being blown off, though with one exception. They added that they would not have noticed if it was, The actual point of failure lay in boiler shell at the lap joint on the starboard side where the strip was added to the original shell—the upper strake—in 1924. Except for this strip the whole boiler was described as being in very good order. Mr. Butterfield says that whea he examined the fracture he saw that the crystalline structure embrittlement, adversely affecting the ductility of the plate; this he called fatigue of the metal.
There was no sign of mechanical failure of any part of the boiler, which would be manifested by leakzge of water.
The quality of this strip of steel has been tested in several ways: 1, At the University on a testing machine, when it was shown to have a
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