For the other readers: Russkaya has been abandoned!!! It's in the sector of Antarctica that's NOT claimed... even though they say 9/10 of the PIE "is" claimed-- this ONE SECTOR is not-- it had ONE station-- or perhaps 2 stations with a US station further south-- but not on the coast. On the flat earth map, this sector is a very long stretch between the very popular and well visited "Rothera UK" base... and what looks to be a militarized US base at Scott/McMurdo. McMurdo and Rothera, in my mind now, are BOOKENDS that ISOLATE the South Magnetic Pole and a huge stretch of coastline. Russkaya was my ONLY HOPE of a landing for 1/4 of the way around the likely "fake island" of "antarctica". Thanks to Felix for this find. Here's his comment in another post.
felix has left a new comment on your post "Was Andhoy & his crew stopped?":
I guess you noticed, Rick, that Russkaya was apparently "mothballed" in 1990 [wiki] allegedly due to funding problems.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%28%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F%29
along with Molodyozhnaya [Молодёжная] and Leningradskaya and so doesn't appear on the list of facilities
http://web.archive.org/web/20070218093920/http://www.comnap.aq/facilities
There's evidence here that scientists from Germany's Technical University in Dresden have been working at Russkaya
http://eies.ats.aq/Ats.IE/ieGenRpt.aspx?idParty=17&period=1&idYear=2009
Permanent GPS observations at Russian Antarctic stations Leningradskaya and Russkaya; Scientific leader: Prof. Reinhard Dietrich
http://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/vening-meinesz/2014/reinhard-dietrich/
During the 2000s Dietrich had a hand in nearly every ESA/NASA mission pertaining to space geodetic observation of ice sheets
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| Reinhard Dietrich.... Does he look like he would be up to living at Russkaya-- a no man's land in Antarctica? |
