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ice-breaker ARKTIKA on her pioneering voyage to the North Pole 
in August 1977 ( according to Pravda and Krasnaya Zvezda, August 
20, 1977, and Izvestiya, August 21). Broken lines are marking the 
sector-boundaries of the Soviet Union. 
  
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Fig 11. Sketch showing a new and shorter Northern Sea Route 
(the line of short dashes), and a high-latitude route (the 
continuous line), about 1,000 nautical miles or not far from 
1,900 km shorter than the ordinary Northern Sea Route. 
(Reproduced from Izvestiya, May 23, 1978).