Editing North Pole (section)

====MLAE 2013 Expedition====
[[File:ML130310.JPG|thumb|Yemelya, an all terrain Russian amphibious vehicle]]
On 1 March 2013 the Russian Marine Live-Ice Automobile Expedition (MLAE 2013) with Vasily Elagin as a leader, and a team of Afanasy Makovnev, Vladimir Obikhod, Alexey Shkrabkin, Andrey Vankov, Sergey Isayev and Nikolay Kozlov on two custom-built 6 x 6 low-pressure-tire ATVs—Yemelya-3 and Yemelya-4—started from Golomyanny Island (the [[Severnaya Zemlya]] Archipelago) to the North Pole across drifting ice of the Arctic Ocean. The vehicles reached the Pole on 6 April and then continued to the Canadian coast. The coast was reached on 30 April 2013 (83°08N, 075°59W [[Ward Hunt Island]]), and on 5 May 2013 the expedition finished in [[Resolute Bay]], NU. The way between the Russian borderland (Machtovyi Island of the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, 80°15N, 097°27E) and the Canadian coast (Ward Hunt Island, 83°08N, 075°59W) took 55 days; it was ~2300&nbsp;km across drifting ice and about 4000&nbsp;km in total. The expedition was totally self-dependent and used no external supplies. The expedition was supported by the [[Russian Geographical Society]].<ref name="yemelya.ru">[http://www.yemelya.ru/diary2013_en.php?lnk=2013 "Diary of MLAE-2013"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023150915/http://www.yemelya.ru/diary2013_en.php?lnk=2013 |date=23 October 2013 }}. ''yemelya.ru''.</ref>