the Land of Alexander the First expedition of the Russian Oceanographic ship “Admiral Vladimir” found in the Bellingshausen sea trench to a depth of 800 metres. While the surrounding basin off the coast of Antarctica, the depths are in the order of two hundred meters.
“Such a phenomenon off the coast — a rarity,” — said in the Department of information and media coverage of the Russian geographical society.
“Bottom of the Bellingshausen sea near the coast of Antarctica has a lot of deep longitudinal furrows, — quotes the commander of the expedition, captain first rank Oleg Osipov RIA Novosti. Apparently they were left slipping icebergs and glaciers”.
round-the-World expedition of the Oceanographic research vessel of Baltic fleet “Admiral Vladimirsky” lasted from 3 December 2019 8 Jun 2020. It was dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica and the 250th anniversary of the birth of Admiral Ivan Kruzenshtern.
the Ship performed a large-scale hydrographic and hydrologic investigations in the Antarctic. In particular, clarifying the position of the island of Peter the First in Antarctica and the location of the coastline of the Land of Alexander I island and Rothschild.
the results of the voyage of the Russian Navy will be amended from 14 nautical charts.
