Extended Operational and Trade Vocabulary
Polar Research Vessels and Polar Code Regimes glossary (page 2)
Vocabulary of polar shipping and science: the Polar Code survival-time and abandonment requirements, national polar institutes such as AARI and the Australian Antarctic Division, named research and supply vessels like Nuyina, Polarstern and Sir David Attenborough, Antarctic stations, and the ice-navigation instrumentation fitted to vessels operating in high-latitude waters.
285 defined terms.
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T
- Trafi
- Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, custodian of Finnish-Swedish ice class rules.
- Trans-Antarctic Mountains
- Continental backbone separating East and West Antarctica.
- Troll Station
- Norwegian year-round Antarctic station in Queen Maud Land, supports DROMLAN airbridge.
U
- UNCLOS Article 234
- Permits coastal states to adopt non-discriminatory laws for ice-covered areas in EEZ; basis of Russian and Canadian Arctic legislation.
- UNIS
- University Centre in Svalbard, Norwegian university campus in Longyearbyen.
- Ural
- Third Project 22220 icebreaker commissioned November 2022 by Baltic Shipyard.
- USAP
- United States Antarctic Program operated by the National Science Foundation since 1959.
- USCG WAGB
- US Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker hull classification symbol, applied to Polar Star and Healy.
- USCG WAGB-10
- USCGC Polar Star, heavy icebreaker.
- USCG WAGB-20
- USCGC Healy, medium icebreaker.
V
- Vaisala
- Finnish manufacturer of meteorological and humidity measurement instruments including the HM41 handheld humidity and temperature meter.
- Vaygach
- Russian shallow-draft nuclear icebreaker built in 1990, sister of Taymyr.
- Vernadsky Research Base
- Ukrainian year-round Antarctic station, transferred from BAS in 1996.
- Voima
- Finnish state icebreaker originally built in 1954 and extensively rebuilt, operated by Arctia.
- Vostok Station
- Russian inland Antarctic year-round station, 3488 m elevation, site of lowest natural surface temperature minus 89.2 deg C.
W
- WAIS
- West Antarctic Ice Sheet, focus of IceBridge and IceSat-2 polar science cruises supported by Nathaniel B. Palmer.
- Wartsila
- supplier of port-area thrusters, automation, and LNG bunkering systems.
- Wasa
- Swedish Antarctic summer-only station co-located with Aboa in Queen Maud Land.
- Weather routing
- Optimum-track routing per environmental forecasts.
- Weddell Sea
- Sea bordering Antarctica's Weddell Sector; formation region for Antarctic Bottom Water.
- Whillans Ice Stream
- West Antarctic ice stream drilled by WISSARD project supported by USAP traverse.
- Winterization
- Cold climate protection for offshore equipment.
- WMO Sea-Ice Egg Code
- Standardized symbology for sea-ice charts referenced in Polar Code PWOM.
- WOCE
- World Ocean Circulation Experiment (1990 to 2002), foundational global hydrography program.
X
- Xue Long
- Chinese polar research icebreaker, rebuilt 1993, Polar Class equivalent PC6.
- Xue Long 2
- Chinese Polar Research Institute icebreaker delivered 2019 by Jiangnan Shipyard, Polar Class PC3.
Y
- Yakutia
- Fourth Project 22220 nuclear icebreaker, launched 2022, commissioned 2024 by Baltic Shipyard.
- Yamal
- Russian Project 10520 nuclear icebreaker commissioned in 1992, operated by Atomflot.
- Yamal LNG
- Russian Arctic LNG project at Sabetta exporting via Arc7 LNG carriers on the NSR.
- Yamalmax
- Informal class label for the 15 Christophe de Margerie series Arc7 LNG carriers.
- Yenisei
- Russian river debouching into the Kara Sea at Dikson, with ice-class navigation up to Dudinka.
Z
- Zhongshan Station
- Chinese year-round Antarctic station in Larsemann Hills, opened 1989.
- Zone 1
- Hazardous area classification around fuel handling on helideck.
- Zone Date System
- Transport Canada legacy ice-shipping framework now overlaid by AIRSS.
- Zvezda Shipyard
- Russian shipbuilding complex in Bolshoy Kamen, builder of Project 10510 Leader-class icebreakers.