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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.
(26 January 1988) Mohammed Ghous uzzaman (Left) and M.Vyghreswara Rao (Right), members of 7th Indian Antarctic Expedition Team at Dakshin Gangotri, Antarctica. (26 January 1988) Col. Jatinder Kumar Bajaj, a member of one of the Indian expeditions to Antarctica, standing at the South Pole (17 January 1989) Deck of the excursion ship Finnpolaris ...
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 March 2012, though it is still being run on trial basis and formal launch is awaited.
Aeriel view of the Dakshin Gangotri scientific research station in Antarctica (2017). Items portrayed in this file ...
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]
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
Officially opened on February 8, 2014, it is the fourth Chinese research station in Antarctica following Great Wall, Zhongshan and Kunlun stations. The fifth, Qinling , followed in February, 2024. The site is located 2,621 m above sea level in Princess Elizabeth Land , 522 km and 600 km to Zhongshan and Kunlun stations respectively. [ 2 ]