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Dakshin Gangotri was the first scientific base station of India situated in Antarctica, part of the Indian Antarctic Programme. It is located at a distance of 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) from the South Pole. [1] It is currently being used as a supply base and transit camp. [2] The base is named after Dakshin Gangotri Glacier. It was established ...
The Dakshin Gangotri Glacier) is a small tongue of the polar continental ice sheet impinging on the Schirmacher Oasis of central Queen Maud Land, AntarcticaIt was discovered by the Second Indian Expedition to Antarctica in 1983, and is named after the Gangotri Glacier in the Himalayas.
The programme gained global acceptance with India's signing of the Antarctic Treaty and subsequent construction of the Dakshin Gangotri Antarctic research base in 1983, [1] superseded by the Maitri base from 1989. The newest base commissioned in 2012 is Bharati, constructed out of 134 shipping containers.
Bharati is a permanent Antarctic research station commissioned by India. 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.
Squadron Leader D. P. Joshi, the surgeon of the team, was the first camp commander of the tentage at camp Maitri. 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]
The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) is an Indian research and development institution, situated in Vasco da Gama, Goa. [4] It is an autonomous institution of the Department of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India which is responsible for administering the Indian Antarctic Programme and maintains the Indian government's Antarctic research stations, Bharati ...
Dakshin Gangotri: Dakshin Gangotri Glacier India National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research: 1984 Permanent 1990 Closed, support base Dome Fuji: Queen Maud Land Japan National Institute of Polar Research: 1995 Summer −54.3 2019 Closed Drescher: Queen Maud Land Germany Alfred Wegener Institute: 1986 Summer 2016 Closed Druzhba Zavadovskiy Island
Collection of Albedo values and other parameters near Veteiah hill and Dakshin Gangotri station was completed. Also, at these locations Automatic Weather Stations with sensors recording wind speed and wind direction, relative humidity and ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure, were made operational along with Albedometer and snow depth ...