Since 1991 the German Antarctic Station GARS O’Higgins has been operated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG). The station is ...

The receiving antenna of DLR’s German Antarctic Receiving Station GARS O’Higgins on the Antarctic Peninsula (63.3°S, 57.9°W) The receiving antenna of DLR’s German Antarctic Receiving Station GARS ...

Germany's International Cooperation Agency, GIZ, and the Antarctica Foundation 21 have started working in energy options, assessing alternatives for the Chilean bases in the continent, avoiding ...

This means that the German research vessel Polarstern, or its successor which is in the drawing board and should be completed by 2015, could be deployed the whole year in Antarctica.

As part of the 1961 agreement, countries are obliged to conduct mutual inspection of research bases. The US exercised this ...

The advance party sent in to open up Britain’s mothballed Antarctic base have found no damage. Halley station was closed in March and staff withdrawn because of uncertainty over the behaviour of ...

A weekend satellite image with a zoom-in on the Polarstern The German Research Vessel Polarstern has made a remarkable circumnavigation of ... that the British have a base just 23km from the ...