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Determination of the Position of the South Magnetic Pole According to the Data of the Russian around the World Expeditions: 1820 (Bellingshausen) and 2020 (Admiral Vladimirsky) Part 2. Expedition of the Admiral Vladimirsky

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In 2019‒2020 The Russian Geographical Society organized a round-the-world expedition on the oceanographic research vessel Admiral Vladimirsky. One of the goals of this expedition was to determine the position of the South Magnetic Pole from experimental data. In the first part of this work, we solved the problem posed on the basis of declination data obtained during the expeditions of Bellingshausen and Cook. In the second part, the position of the South Magnetic Pole is determined from the data of component and magnitude measurements obtained on board the Admiral Vladimirsky.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The team of authors is grateful to everyone who took part in the delivery of equipment for the expedition, promptly organized the transfer of information, provided communication and coordination along the route of the Admiral Vladimirsky.

We personally thank:

— Professor, Doctor of Science, Head of the Department of Ground Geomagnetic Research, Kopytenko Yu.A.;

— the head of the Admiral Vladimirsky expedition, deputy head of the Department of Navigation and Oceanography of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Osipov Oleg Dmitrievich;

— the scientific staff of the Department of Ground Geomagnetic Research (SPbF IZMIRAN) Ph.D. Sergushina P.A., Zaitseva D.B., Levanenko V.A., Petlenko A.V.;

— Yegor Mikhailovich Krasinsky, Managing Director of Yuzhmorgeologiya JSC (Russian Geological Holding Rosgeologiya);

— the Head of the Department of Gravimetric and Magnetic Marine Research Grigoriev Evgeny Konstantinovich;

— the deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Applied Geophysics Vladimir Timurovich Minligareev;

— the employee of the 6th Atlantic expedition PhD Protsaenko Sergey Vladimirovich.

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  1. St. Petersburg Branch, Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    S. A. Merkuriev, V. G. Boyarskikh, I. M. Demina, S. A. Ivanov & V. A. Soldatov

  2. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    S. A. Merkuriev

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Merkuriev, S.A., Boyarskikh, V.G., Demina, I.M. et al. Determination of the Position of the South Magnetic Pole According to the Data of the Russian around the World Expeditions: 1820 (Bellingshausen) and 2020 (Admiral Vladimirsky) Part 2. Expedition of the Admiral Vladimirsky. Geomagn. Aeron. 62 (Suppl 1), S116–S127 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793222600606

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