On the morning of April 21, an AN-74 departed the Barneo-2017 camp with the last cargo for Longyearbyen in the Spitsbergen (Svalbard) Archipelago. Initially, the expedition's organizers planned to start dismantling the camp on April 24, but the ice floe began to disintegrate, and everyone had to hurry. Originally, the expedition members

Norwegian music band Advent By Poolboys performed at Barneo for five days. Their sound director and cameraman also came along because concerts always require quality sound whether at a night club in Oslo or on an ice floe somewhere in the Arctic. It was the first concert on an ice floe. No professional musicians had ever visited Barneo before. Theoretically, any band could play here, if the band isn't too big.

The Barneo-2017 agenda included a rather limited research program because the expedition organizers failed to deliver the large laboratory needed. This year continued an 11-year program to monitor the parameters of the Arctic basin's upper water masses in the circumpolar region, said program chief Sergei Pisarev. "This information, plus summer-time measurements, provides insight into the objective causes of possible reduction of Arctic sea ice formation," Pisarev explained, while commenting on the task of researchers. In February, scientists recorded the smallest area of winter sea ice, an all-time low. When asked to explain these sad records, Pisarev replied that researchers had

People skiing one or two degrees toward the North Pole are called "one-degree" and "two-degree" tourists. This year, it took one group seven to ten days to cover 1 degree (just over 100 kilometers). And two groups of "two-degree" tourists skied from the 88th to the 90th parallel.