Fletcher's Ice Island
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fletcher-s-ice-island-287-69503
title:
Fletcher's Ice Island
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Fletcher's Ice Island or T-3 was an iceberg discovered by U.S. Air Force Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher. Between 1952 and 1978 it was used as a staffed scientific drift station that included huts, a power plant, and a runway for wheeled aircraft. The iceberg was a thick tabular sheet of glacial ice that drifted throughout the central Arctic Ocean in a clockwise direction. First inhabited in 1952 as an arctic weather report station, it was abandoned in 1954 but reinhabited on two subsequent occasions
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Iceberg used as scientific drift station
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%27s_Ice_Island
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2023-05-28T06:36:23Z
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