Belgian Antarctic Program information

Belgium was one of the 12 countries that initially negotiated and signed the Antarctic Treaty (Washington, 1959). The first Belgian expedition of scientific...

The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the...

A national Antarctic program is any government operated or supported program which is mandated with managing the support of scientific research and contributing...

dependent territory. It borders the claimed British Antarctic Territory 20° west and the Australian Antarctic Territory 45° east. In addition, a small unclaimed...

who as meteorologist had accompanied the Belgian explorer Baron Adrien de Gerlache on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition "Belgica", 1897–1899. This was...

the base. Belgian Antarctic Program List of Antarctic research stations List of Antarctic field camps List of airports in Antarctica Antarctic Station Catalogue...

The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to...

Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic...

ice stations set up in the Arctic, the current research stations of the Antarctic are constructed either on rocks or on ice that are (for practical purposes)...

actively studied by Belgian Antarctic Program scientists from the Princess Elisabeth Base. This includes: BELARE (Belgian Antarctic Research Project),...

Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) is an international association that develops and promotes best practice in managing the support...

an ice floe used for several years as a landing stage by the Belgian Antarctic Program. Twilight Bay Hemer, M.A., Harris, P.T., 2003. Sediment core from...

The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude...

Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), a branch of the National Science Foundation. The station is...

Science Foundation under the US Antarctic Program. The Antarctic silverfish was first formally described in 1902 by the Belgian-born British zoologist George...

continent closest to them. The cities are used by both national Antarctic programs and Antarctic commercial tourism companies, although they differ in how much...

Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora. The International Geophysical Year Antarctic Program was the beginning of concerns for Antarctic wildlife, as...

the first proper expedition of the Heroic Age.) The Belgian Antarctic Expedition was led by Belgian Adrian de Gerlache. In 1898, they became the first...

at Cape Adare 1897–1899 – Belgian Antarctic Expedition – led by Adrien de Gerlache; first to winter South of the Antarctic Circle. 1898–1900 – Southern...

Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research...

coordinated by the Instituto Antártico Argentino (IAA) and Argentine Antarctic Program. The Argentine exploration of the continent started early in the 20th...

Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, also known as the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, and...

The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (Russian: Советская антарктическая экспедиция, САЭ, Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya) was part...

Freeze II during the International Geophysical Year. The United States Antarctic Program airfield, built to service Operation Deep Freeze (first mission) was...

Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered on 7 October 1960 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1960, under Guido Derom, and was named by Derom for Gaston...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling...

Nudel Man Soviet Antarctic Expeditions 1955-1959, Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva, 1959 (translated from the Russian; Israel program for scientific...

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural...