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WHEN the Soviet polar station was founded on an ice-floe near the North Pole on May 21, 1937, it was expected that the floe would drift slowly, perhaps erratically, but on the whole towards the northern coast of Greenland. The outflow of ice from the Arctic basin by the East Greenland current, the observed westerly drift of floes to the north of Greenland and the heavy hummocky ice off Smith Sound and Grant Land, Nares' misnamed palæocrystic ice, all point to the probability of a more or less rotatory drift within the Arctic basin. There can be little doubt that some of the Arctic pack-ice is carried, at least at times, by such a drift, which is no doubt partly due to the earth's rotation and is assisted by the prevalent atmospheric circulation.
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B., R. The Soviet North Polar Station. Nature 140, 1040–1041 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401040a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1401040a0