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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.
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 ...
Argentine Antarctica (Spanish: Antártida Argentina or Sector Antártico Argentino) [4] is an area on Antarctica claimed by Argentina as part of its national territory.It consists of the Antarctic Peninsula and a triangular section extending to the South Pole, delimited by the 25° West and 74° West meridians and the 60° South parallel. [5]
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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The station was founded on January 25, 1948 by Argentina. In 1950 a seismograph was installed in the base, and in 1951 it also received ionospheric equipment. In 1993 a volcano observatory was opened.