A mysterious Nazi base named ‘Treasure Hunter’ has been unearthed by Russian researchers in the Arctic, who believe the military installation was abandoned after staff ate infected polar bear meat.

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Russian Northern coast is a vast territory lays for a few thousand of miles and all this coastline is inside the Polar Circle. Long polar winters mean no daylight at all, just one day changes another without any sign of the Sun rising above the horizon.

In addition to onsite visits to facilities in the Russian Federation, three facilities in Alaska were assessed in support of North Pacific and Russian Far East tracks: Cold Bay, King Salmon, and Shemya Island/Eareckson Air Station ().

Back to main article. POLAR ROUTES OFFER NEW OPPORTUNITIES. Nonstop flights between North America and Asia via the North Pole, while long recognized as advantageous, have only now become practical.

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses.

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As early as the 16th century, many prominent people correctly believed that the North Pole was in a sea, which in the 19th century was called the Polynya or Open Polar Sea.

Prior to the collapse of Russia in 1917, vast quantities of military supplies had been assembled in the northern part of that country at the ports of Archangel and Murmansk, the latter being an open port north of the Arctic Circle.