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explorations were conducted in 1765 and 1766 as part of two Russian government expeditions under the command of Admiral V. Chichagov, who, in search of a passage north of Greenland through the Arctic, carried out oceanographic, geophysical and meteorological observations according to a special program developed by M. Lomonosov, studied currents and ice drift in the northern Greenland Sea, took soil samples, and measured depths in many places. A number of scientific

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