Posthumous Honors
The data about the drift of the St. Anna on the pack ice of the Kara Sea supplied by Albanov were carefully studied in 1924 by Soviet oceanographer V. Yu. Vize. He detected an odd deviation of the path of the ship's drift caused by certain variations of the patterns of sea and ice currents. Professor Vize deemed that the deviation was caused by the presence of an undiscovered island whose coordinates he was able to calculate with precision thanks to Albanov's data. This island was later discovered and named Vize Island.
In 1975, Arctic expert William Barr wrote, "The name of Valerian Ivanovich Albanov must be ranked among those of the immortals of polar exploration."
A glacier in October Revolution Island, in the Severnaya Zemlya group has been named after Valerian Albanov.
A Russian expedition in September 2010, following the route of the crew members left behind, found some remainders of them: a human skeleton, a watch, snowshoes, a knife, a spoon with a sailor's initials, and sunglasses made from empty rum bottles' glass.
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