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Record #183718:
Unknown waters: a firsthand account of the historic under-ice survey of the Siberian continental shelf by USS Queenfish / Captain Alfred Scott McLaren ; foreword by William R. Anderson.
Title: | Unknown waters: a firsthand account of the historic under-ice survey of the Siberian continental shelf by USS Queenfish / Captain Alfred Scott McLaren ; foreword by William R. Anderson. |
Author(s): | McLaren, Alfred Scott, Anderson, William R., |
Date: | 2008. |
Publisher: | Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press |
Abstract: | Account of hazardous expedition (Arctic-Siberian Continental Shelf Exploration, or SUBICEX 1-70) by submarine Queenfish (SSN-651), which made first survey of Siberian continental shelf in 1970. Describes dangers posed by deep-draft sea ice, shallow waters and possible detection by Soviet Union. Voyage retraced USS Nautilus's 1958 route across Chukchi Sea and Arctic Ocean via North Pole. |
Notes: | Reviewed by William Barr in Polar Record, 2009, 45(233) :187-188. |
Keywords: | 629.127 -- Submarines. 528.47 -- Surveying, hydrographic and coastal. 551.46 -- Oceanography, physical. 551.462 -- Submarine topography, bottom forms. 551.462.32 -- Continental shelves. 551.326.7 -- Sea ice. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1970 SUBICEX. 359 -- Navy. X -- Biographies and obituaries. (*60) -- Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters. (*68) -- Arctic Ocean, seas adjacent to Russia. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*60) : 551.462.32 |
ISBN: | 9780817316020 |
SPRI record no.: | 183718 |
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