Tag: Kolyuchin Island
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Polar bears seize abandoned Russian Arctic research station
Drone captures bears at an abandoned research station In a striking late-summer scene, a group of polar bears has moved into an abandoned Soviet polar research station on Kolyuchin Island, a remote outpost off Russia’s far northeastern coast. The site sits in the Chukchi Sea, where scientists once studied polar conditions before the Soviet era…
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Polar Bears Take Over Abandoned Soviet Station in the Russian Arctic
Overview: Polar bears at an abandoned Soviet station In late summer daylight, a drone video captured a group of polar bears roaming the shattered remains of a Soviet-era polar research station on Kolyuchin Island, a small outpost off Russia’s far-northern coast in the Chukchi Sea. Travel blogger Vadim Makhorov filmed bears entering and exiting the…
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Polar bears take over abandoned Soviet station on Arctic island
Polar bears take over an abandoned Arctic outpost In late summer, a group of polar bears has taken up residence around an abandoned Soviet-era polar research station on Kolyuchin Island, a bleak outpost off Russia’s far-north-eastern coast in the Chukchi Sea. Drone footage captured by a travel photographer shows bears roaming in and out of…