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The Instituto Antártico Argentino (English: Argentine Antarctic Institute, abbrevriated IAA) is the Argentine federal agency in charge of orientating, controlling, addressing and performing scientific and technical research and studies in the Antarctic. [1] It is under the supervision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship.
Argentina was one of the twelve original signatories of the Antarctic Treaty which was signed on December 1, 1959, and came in force on 21 June 1961.. Argentina's scientific activities started at the beginning of the twentieth century when an Argentine named José María Sobral joined the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1904) commanded by Otto Nordenskjold, which wintered two years in ...
Instituto Antártico Peruano [23] 1989 30 30 −2.1 Maldonado: Greenwich Island Ecuador Instituto Antártico Ecuatoriano: 1990 34 32 Matienzo: Graham Land Argentina Instituto Antartico Argentino: 1961 12 12 −3: −5.0 Melchior: Melchior Islands Argentina Instituto Antartico Argentino: 1947 15 12 −3: −2.9 Mendel: James Ross Island Czech ...
In 1955, then Brigade General Hernán Pujato founded the first Belgrano Base (), which remained for years as Argentina's southernmost settlement. [2]After 25 years of continuous activity, Belgrano I was closed due to the fast deterioration of the ice barrier it was sitting on; new, often hidden cracks and crevices endangered the on-duty personnel and material.
Instituto Antártico Argentino: Elevation [1] 50 m (160 ft) Population
In 1982, the facilities were transferred to Instituto Antártico Argentino and the station was raised to base status, and inaugurated as such on 12 February. [ 1 ] In 1990, the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany began talks with Instituto Antártico Argentino , which was looking at installing on-site laboratories ...
Instituto Antartico Argentino; CONICET (National Council for Science and Technology) Viviana Andrea Alder (born 1957 in San Julián , Argentina) is an Argentine researcher in Antarctica , best known for her research on marine microbiology.
Brown Station dates to 6 April 1951, when Argentina established the Almirante Brown Naval Detachment at Paradise Harbor. [3]The Argentine Antarctic Institute took over the station in 1964–65, creating one of the most complete biology laboratories on the Antarctic Peninsula. [3]