Other major results of the voyage are as follows.
[1] By selecting a more northerly route, the Kandalaksha was able to take a shorter route than the usual NSR (Figure 4.2-6), traveling the 3,140NM from the Bering Strait to Kirkenes in 13 days. Considering that these voyage-days included three extra days for activities to record documentary film and conduct research work, the direct voyage to Kirkenes could have been made within 10 days. The Kandalaksha's rapid progress through the NSR was partly because of favorable ice conditions and partly due to optimum routing with information delivered by the satellites.
[2] The ship ventured as far north as 81°23'N, north of Severnaya Zemlya, without icebreaker support, which had not been accomplished since the voyage of the steamship Sibiryakov in 1932.
[3] The Russian members kept a 24-hour watch for ice conditions from the bridge of the Kandalaksha. Their observations were incorporated into a data sheet by the Russian and Canadian members and used to calculate the ice numerals (see Appendix 5-2) recently defined in the Ice Regime Control System of CASPPR in Canada.
