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EXPEDITIONS Flag Reports   FLAG 179 In the Steps of Legendary Explorers of the Arctic March–April 2006 name Expedition Members: Alexander Borodin—Co-Leader, Chair of the Russian Chapter of The Explorers Club Aleksei Mikhailov—Co-Leader Andrey Rodionov Victor Parshikov Sergey Goryachev Alexey Simakin   Introduction The Russian chapter of the Explorers Club, with the participation of the Ford Motor Company and the support of the administration of the Chukotka Autonomous District carried out a winter expedition across Russia from Moscow to Chukotka in specially modified Ford Expedition automobiles. In the Arctic, the expedition passed through locations unified by their place in the history of discovery and conquest of the Russian Arctic, including points along the treks made by such figures as Dezhnev and Stadukhin, Bering and Dmitriy Laptev, Shalaurov and James Cook, Billings and Sarychev, Wrangel and Matyushkin, Kolchak and Vilkitskiy, De Long and Nordenskjold, and Stefansson and Bartlett. Among other landmarks, the expedition will visit the place where the American aviator Carl Ben Eielson was lost; the site of the Soviet North airplane crash; and places related to the heroic Chelyuskin epic. FULL REPORT in pdf RETURN TO LIST

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