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Expedition Diary 2007
Start first campaign
12-11-2007
Leave port from Punta Arenas on the ice breaker “Oscar Viel” of the Chilean Army.
Arriving to King Jorge Island
15-11-2007
Landing at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island and arrival and disembarking at the Chilean base Escudero, Fildes Peninsula, King George Isla...
Landing in Rothera
19-11-2007
Arrival at the British research station Rothera, southern end of the Wormald Ice Piedmont, Adelaide Island.
First flight
20-11-2007
Reconnaissance flight to Fleming Glacier (69.5°S, 66°W).
Working on the field
28-11-2007
Transfer of materials and equipment on skies to the nearby nunatak in order to install the weather station and GPS at this site.
Installing the AWS
29-11-2007
With few visibility al the equipment is brought back to the base camp due to bad quality and unsuitability of the bedrock of the nunatak,...
GPS measurements
30-11-2007
Installation and measurement of the stakes at the pre-established sites and tear-down of the base camp on the glacier.
End of the campaign
08-12-2007
Return flight to Punta Arenas from station FREI in an airplane C-130 "Hércules" of the Chilean Airforce.
Last News
Larsen C 2010 field season
16-11-2010
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II International Symposium - P...
04-05-2010
This new meeting looks for enhancing the interactions between scientists working in quantita...
SCAR Buenos Aires
05-04-2010
The Open Science Conference meeting of the Scientific Comittee of Antarctic Research (SCAR) is held this time in the city of Bu...