 In March 1952, Thule Air Base sent C-47 aircraft to T-3, and several research stations were installed on the iceberg's flat surface.The stations were abandoned in May 1954, when the weather observations were deemed redundant, but were reoccupied from April to September 1955.In April 1957, the station "ALPHA" was installed on the iceberg, which was the first long-term scientific base in the Arctic operated by a Western country.