The “Vernadsky” station celebrates 25 years
The “Vernadsky Research Base” celebrated the 25th anniversary. In 1996, Ukrainian polar explorers raised their flag over the former British “Faraday Station” for the first time.
Penguins in Europe for over 100 years
Edinburgh Zoo was the first place to see penguins in Europe. Their waddly gait and appearance quickly made them the stars of the zoo.
Borchgrevink – First! (and third)
Carsten Borchgrevink was not the first person on the Antarctic continent. But the first one to overwinter there.
William-Spiers-Bruce
William Speirs Bruce was a young Scot who had travelled to Antarctica for the first time as an expedition leader in 1892-93. Bruce was also a member of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz Josef Land in 1896-97 and 1898 in Spitsbergen in the Arctic.
Mirny – First Soviet Research Station in Antarctica
In preparation for the International Geophysical Year, the Soviet Union conducted its first Antarctic expedition in 1955-1956. On 14.2.1956 the flag was hoisted. The station “MIRNY” was thus officially opened.
Dinosaur footprint discovered in Antarctica
During an Antarctic expedition, researchers in northern Victorialand discovered a 200-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint. It was a roughly hand-sized trace of an animal from the group of archosaurs.
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