Ice floe floats
Soviet station
to U.S. shore
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JUNEAU, Alas
ka (Al’J An leu
floe carrying an
abandoned Soviet
research station, hundreds ot
drums of fuol and potentially
hazardous chomicals has boon
found aftor missing for more
than throe weeks off northern
Alaska.
The island of ico was break
ing up and half the structures
and all the barrels were miss
ing, the Coast Guard said.
A flight crew who spotted the
scientific station Sunda, about
180 miles west of Burrow, said
no drums were sighted and
there was no sheen on the wa
ter.
"Mini m a 1 environmental
damage is expected to result to
the U.S. continental shelf from
the release of diesel oil, due to
the distance from shore,” the
Coast Guard said in u state
ment.
The floe broke loose from the
Soviet coast July 24, the Coast
Guard said. On Sept. 2, it was
reported drifting in the Arctic
Ocean 55 miles northwest of
Barrow, the state’s northern
most city
North Slope Borough and
federal officials were concerned
about pollution and the naviga
tion hazard posed by the ice
floe and any floating fuel
drums, particularly with the
start of tlie fall Eskimo whaling
season
Tho Coast iiuard said it
equippod ono of its ('-130
transports with a sensitive ra
dar system to help find the
drifting island, North Pole ill
That came after a half-dozen
attempts were made by the
Nortli Slope Borough Search
and Rescue Division to relocate
tiie ice floe.
North Slope and Coast Cuard
officials went to the station in
July, when it first was reported
to tie breaking away and when
tho 33 people working there
needed help getting off
A Soviet cutter rescued the
workers, and that was tho last
time the station's location was
known until the Sept 2 sight
ing by a walrus researcher.
Tho Soviets hud left 500
drums of diesel fuel, 30 drums
of aluminum powder, 10 drums
of lubricating oil, four bugs of
caustic soda and 000 empty
drums ut the site, according to a
memo to the Coast Cuard from
tiie Soviet Marine Pollution
Control and Salvage Adminis
tration in St. Petersburg
Satellites indicate that the ice
floe is moving northwest, to
ward the Soviet Union, officials
said.
The Soviets have accepted
full responsibility for the sta
tion, and have said they will re
move what structures and
drums remained, the Coast
Guard said.
Such stations usually are
used for long-term study of ice,
currents, weather and sea floor
topography.
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