31/3-15

Position: 85° 18.8' N, 37° 13' W. All instruments turned off to save power. Moved the weather station and the radiation flux instruments at the new camp site. The fan on the radiation flux sensor will not have power until our generator problem is sorted out. Audun marked N-direction on the ice floe and measured the azimuth of the weather station to be = 354° . Audun also prepared recovery of the current meter at 2.000 meter depth and pulled up the first 100 meter. Made another search for the thermistor string with negative result. Moved 100 liter Jet-A1 from the old camp site to the hovercraft to be used for heating. We received a very positive response for the Danish Arctic Command, but unfortunately no flight opportunities before 23 April. As we still have no response from the Norwegian Air Force, we sent a letter to the Expedition Office of the Russian Geographical Society, Moscow asking them to consider the possibility of assisting us with an air drop in connection with a planned IL76 flight out of Murmansk to the ice station Barneo at the North Pole.