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A national Antarctic program is any government operated or supported program which is mandated with managing the support of scientific research and contributing to the governance and protection of the Antarctic environment on behalf of its nation and in the spirit of the Antarctic Treaty. [1]
India's signing of the Antarctic Treaty System Antarctic Treaty in 1981 began the Indian Antarctic Program (under the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research). [9] [10] [11] Along with structural geologist Sudipta Sengupta, Aditi Pant was the first Indian woman to set foot on Antarctica.
India hosted the eleventh COMNAP/SCALOP (Standing Committee on Antarctic Logistics and Operations) meeting in Goa in 1999, and the working group meeting on eco-system monitoring and management of CCAMLR in August 1998 at Cochin. India occupied the CCAMLR chair beginning in November 1998 for a period of 2 years. [2]
Studies on leptin neuropeptide status in human beings was conducted in three phases viz., Phase I at Goa, Phase II immediately after reaching Antarctica and Phase III after one month of stay in Antarctica. Blood, urine and food samples were collected, apart from anthropometric and body fat measurements.
Colonization of Antarctica is the establishing and maintaining of control over Antarctic land for exploitation and possibly settlement. [1]Antarctica was claimed by several states since the 16th century, culminating in a territorial competition in the first half of the 20th century when its interior was explored and the first Antarctic camps and bases were set up.
It is India's third Antarctic research facility and one of two active Indian research stations, alongside Maitri. India's first committed research facility, Dakshin Gangotri, is being used as a supply base. India has demarcated an area beside Larsemann Hills at 69°S, 76°E for construction. The research station has been operational since 18 ...
In 1991, the eleventh Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica conducted geomagnetic observations simultaneously at Dakshin Gangotri and Maitri. [16] In 2008, India set up its first permanent research base on the Arctic Ocean, Himadri. [17] In 2012, a third research station, the Bharati was made operational, although only for testing. [12]
The first huts were started by the IV Antarctica Expedition and completed in 1989, shortly before the first station, Dakshin Gangotri, was buried in ice and abandoned in 1990–91. [2] Maitri is situated in the rocky mountainous region called Schirmacher Oasis .