#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Traveler and polar explorer Fedor Konyukhov has spent 14 days on the ice of a single drifting station having broken his own record of 2021. That year his drift lasted ten days, or more precisely 249 hours and 25 minutes, the Konyukhov international travel center’s press service reported.
During the drift, the extreme sportsman has covered more than 175 kilometers, dividing the route between the western and eastern hemispheres. The Konyukhov’s expedition headquarters team set up three tents at the station: one is used as housing and a place where scientific research is carried out, another – for storing equipment, food supplies and gear, and the third is a temporary chapel.
The press service explained that, while at the North Pole, Fedor Konyukhov continues to implement the scientific program of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A special digital seismograph with autonomous power supply elements has been delivered to the polar station. The traveler’s first task is to study the behavior of continuous ice fields on deformation from the passage of the ocean surface gravity and infragravity waves. The second is to record signals from earthquakes in the immediate vicinity of tectonic structures in the earth’s crust under the Arctic ocean waters, including along the Gakkel Ridge, where a large number of earthquakes occur.
“The ground-based seismic stations that are used to monitor this activity are too far from the ridge to record weak earthquakes, which carry additional important information about the seismic regime of the tectonic structure under study. The study uniqueness also lies in the fact that a single polar station does not generate additional noise, which is typical for crowded continental stations”, the international travel center explained.
Earlier, This Is Taimyr reported that Fedor Konyukhov and Igor Potapkin were the first in the world to reach the North Pole on a parachute.
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Text: Polina Bardik, Photo: Fedor Konyukhov’s official website
