THE MAP OF COMPARATIVE COVERAGE OF US-USSR ACTIVITIES 1955-1964

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T01019A000200370002-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 8, 1964
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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Le activities ahown on this anp of UAL and US activities in Antarctica
eostitute the t ibla public record of acaowalisbaaats -- with its correspoudic
ttiaal iaelicaticr a. The ap does not provift, of cores, any measure either
the s ieticatits of resesrch activity or of acc+.t, li is in such fields
T-!ic scisa es.
SL-cla'awcal,VGICW wad , s w-VVin sadp activities have
to - tst give r and SO" .tfor%V coneeeatxsted in West Aatarctica, oviet
their each sash er eeditit , have bean Some a14 dispersed more
1arSur aria of bat Atster-ctiaa. Thus, Soviet survey ing for
rscamissawe cUVex a the acre imWortnz:t and
aw0e# a essible costal 3ph*ryr over 117 lca~ .ta~dis OL@grll$ in extent. A,i a
.Oir~e to of their heavy as saia an the none.= topics of ma; ping sad geclo;ic
swuration in the P41-10Y period the Soviets Ver's 9.ulck4 able to
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h$ieh an impressive record of valor presence on the AntaraUc landscape.
iUastsation of this record is rapreeentsd in part by the Russian place names
di~ ft this say of empLrative coverage. The record of Soviet activity was
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iagreasiv+. y exeEpiifisd by the larger scale Soviet MV coverage east and West of
3tl. rny'y. Soviet coverage of this area caasists of 8 sheets at 1i 0,000, 23 sheets
at ltl00,000, and 2) shoots at 11200,000. ieh range in large-scale cover W,
unequalled by any other cotmtry, leads eagbasis to Soviet achievasnts thraugt
the portrayal of features in greater detail, away of vhich are identified with
new R% ssian asses ranee. an the vbole, the Soviets have respected previous scales
reluctant to include these an their maps. These Soviet
rsede in date and detail the US 1 t 500,000 leg sheets of the iltralry
to caqAatian in 19,6 before the Soviets could publish
Intensive Soviet research an the . tiaent has been cawentratsd first in
the w4un area and to the inteariar, to tok and Sovetskaya. Since late lit?,
activities have been intensified at tovolazaryevskay , especially in surveying
and aappiag, and in geological ration. Presently, the shift of met
expedition headquarters to Molodezhatya, and the intensive a iag and ,~aological
tvo aeasaas, points to a developing Soviet wg basis in the
"Iasst Studied Area" to fill the *average Vp betve n $irsyy-Vostok- Sovetskaya
east and Novalazaryevskays to the vest. A f4rernum,r of this interest
has been the Soviet ca pletiai of the second loogtst tractor traverse in ,btaretiaa
?? over 2,000 statute miles -- tree Vostok to llolodesbnaya.
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