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Foreigners will be allowed in the protected area of Franz Josef Land

08:07, 13 апреля 2012

Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean will be able to accept more tourists soon. This was announced by the Secretary of United Nation Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev at an international conference Security and Cooperation in the Arctic: New Frontiers, which was held in Murmansk. Having visited the most northern frontier post Nagurskoe at the island of Alexandra, Mr. Patrushev announced that this facility will be opened for tourists, including foreigners.

 

Today to the archipelago come 3-4 icebreakers each year, all in all they carry about 500 tourists, 70% of which are foreigners. During the day excursions landings are made on rubber motorboats or helicopters, and the infrastructure is replaced by the icebreaker itself. Therefore, as told by RATA-news’ destination specialists, the main issue of tourism development on the territories bordering on the North Pole is making safe and affordable transportation logistic and infrastructure.

 

“Arctic tourism is interesting and perspective, and Franz Josef Land is the most attractive arctic island area of Russia”, believes the General Director of the Animate Nature Club, Oleg Prodan. Now there’s only a closed border post – a modern building with the entire amenity, means of communication and so on. Mr. Prodan says that in fact, it could be used as a base camp for small tourist groups. Creating a full-fledged infrastructure on the islands is rather venturesome, but still possible, the expert is confident. On the other hand, even 500 tourists a year bring enormous anthropogenic load on the archipelago. “It is necessary to create admissible conditions, safe routes both for people and the arctic nature. Imagine that, a man walks on the moss of the cape Flora, and it won't grow back for one hundred years.” – warns Mr. Prodan. However, if these questions are approached competently and professionally, all these questions can and must be solved.

 

“Now transportation component of travelling to the islands of the Arctic Ocean is very expensive, that’s why this type of recreation will not become mass in the nearest future”, - says Oleg Prodan. According to him, a new type of tourism which is connected with climate warming can be observed for the last two years; yachts of Russians and foreign seafarers come to the archipelago in summer.

 

Sales and Marketing Director of Poseidon Expeditions Company, Maksim Chernishev, is more careful in evaluating prospects of "conquering" of Franz Josef Land by tourists. To his mind, the idea itself is interesting, tourists - are always good. But they should be taken there, logistics should be thought over. Mr. Chernishev agrees with his colleague that the main thing is not to harm the nature of the archipelago, to follow the balance between the tourism development and keeping nature’s inviolability: “To do this, people’s meddling should be minimal, as there are walruses, white bears and thousands of rare birds in the Arctic.”

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