5 April 2018 It may look easy, but surfacing a nuclear submarine in the Arctic requires careful preparation. Popular Mechanic story: A submarine bursting through the Arctic ice is a powerful image. But it’s not an easy one to pull… Read More »How the Navy Punches a Nuclear Sub Through Arctic Ice
19 April 2018 Royal Navy submarine HMS Trenchant has broken through the ice of the North Pole with two US submarines to bring Ice Exercise 2018 to an end. A few weeks after punching through the ice off Alaska, the… Read More »Submarine HMS Trenchant breaks through the ice of the North Pole
Arctic Submarine Laboratory at www.csp.navy.mil/asl/ The Navy’s Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) is a Fleet Support Detachment of Commander, Submarine Forces U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC). ASL is the “Center of Excellence” for arctic matters for the U.S. submarine force. ASL… Read More »Arctic Submarine Laboratory
The Original Symposium was instigated in 2001 and focused on US naval operations and strategic issues “On 17 and 18 April 2001 the Oceanographer of the Navy, the Office of Naval Research, the Arctic Research Commission, and the Naval Ice… Read More »Symposium on Naval Operations in an Ice-free Arctic
“Operation Muskox was the largest military exercise ever held in the Canadian Arctic and the fourth of four military expeditions held in the region in the 1940s. The previous three, Eskimo, Polar Bear and Lemming, had been on a far… Read More »Operation Muskox – Canadian North – 1946
ARCTIC SUBMARINE LABORATORY – Collections of Photographs https://www.sublant.usff.navy.mil/Press-Room/Photo-Gallery/
The Svalbard Archipelago – American Military and Political Geographies of Spitsbergen and Other Norwegian Territories, 1941-1950 edited and with an introduction by P.J. Capelotti Contains a US military report from 1942 that contains descriptions of every aspect of the islands… Read More »The Svalbard Archipelago
Arctic Mission 90 North by Airship and Submarine by William F. Althoff Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2011 An account of the US Navy’s work in the Arctic in 1958 telling the story of the USS Nautilus but also flights by… Read More »Arctic Mission
Arctic Airmen – The RAF in Spitsbergen and North Russia, 1942 by Ernest Schofield & Roy Conyers Nesbit Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2005 First Published by William Kimber in 1987
The Sledge Patrol by David Howarth Collins, London, 1957 The story of wartime dog patrols in the North-East of Greenland during WWII.
Great World War II Battles in the Arctic by Mark Llewellyn Evans Contributions to Military Studies, No. 172, Greenwood Press, London, 1999
Northwest Staging Route The route wаs developed іn 1942 due tо several reasons. Initially, the United States Army Air Corps 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command аt Great Falls Army Airfield wаs ordered tо organize аnd develop аn air route tо… Read More »Northwest Staging Route
The Royal Air Force North Polar Research Flights, 1945 – Article by R. H. Winfield (1947) Polar Record / Volume 5 / Issue 33-34 / December 1947, pp 6-13 Accessible online via Cambridge Journals for authorised users The R.A.F. North Polar Research Flights were made… Read More »The Royal Air Force North Polar Research Flights, 1945
The War in Svalbard, 1939-45 – Article by J. G. Elbo (1952). Polar Record, Volume 6, Issue44, July 1952 pp 484-495 Accessible online via Cambridge Journals for authorised users This account deals mainly with Allied activities in Svalbard during the… Read More »The War in Svalbard, 1939-45
US Navy Arctic Roadmap prepared by Task Force Climate Change / Oceanographer of the Navy – June 2011Read More »US Navy Arctic Roadmap
Surface at the Pole, Commander James Calvert, USN (1961) The story of the USS Skate.
Submarines Under Ice, The U.S. Navy’s Polar Operations, Marion D. Williams (1998)
