The KAPITAN DRANITSYN moored in the ice near the French sailing vessel TARA which will intentionally be frozen in the ice for two years to study Arctic climatology and oceanography.

Image ID: arct0030, NOAA At The Ends of the Earth Collection
Location: Arctic Ocean, north of western Russia
Photo Date: 2006 September 3
Photographer: Mike Dunn, NC State Museum of Natural Sciences
Credit: NOAA Climate Program Office, NABOS 2006 Expedition

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