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Navigate the Arctic and Antarctic extremely difficult. The magnetic compass becomes a very unreliable assistant, and in some places it can show the direction exactly the opposite way. In winter, it is best to navigate by the stars. But in summer you can't see the stars, and the sun doesn't set.

Above large polynyas, the sky is darker in color.

Albatrosses accompany the ship until it approaches multi-year, pack ice and only then leave the ship. The snow petrel usually flies in the area of pack ice, so its appearance is the first sign of severe ice conditions.

The appearance near the ship in the Arctic of eiders, long-tailed ducks, loons, guillemots, guillemots, little auks, three-toed gulls indicates the proximity of ice-free spaces where they feed.

Meeting with buttercups and guillemots in the fog on clear water warns of the proximity of the ground or the ice edge, because. these birds do not fly more than 15 to 20 miles from land or ice.

The presence of seals and polar bears hunting for them on the ice indicates that the ice is not continuous, it has leads and cracks.

The largest amount of plankton is observed in areas of the polar regions, where cold and warm waters mix. In the polar seas, the development of plankton lasts only 2-4 months, since summer is very short in high latitudes. Spring flowering of plankton in the Arctic seas - July, August, in temperate - April, May, in the tropics - winter months.

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