ANTARTICA

Antartica

Giri Raj Singh Sirohi was the first Indian to set foot on Antarctica. Sirohi is a scientist who carried out research at the South Pole inAntarctica in 1960 for around 100 days in sub-zero temperatures. Sirohi received the lifetime award from the Indian Society for Plant Physiology in 2003. To honour his breakthrough contribution to the Science of Plant Physiology, the US Government instructed the United States Board on Geographic Names to name a place in Antarctica after him as Sirohi Point in 1961.

Research station

Bharati is the name of an upcoming Antarctic research station commissioned by India. It will be India's third Antarctic research facility and, after completion, one of two active Indian research stations, alongside Maitri. India's first committed research facility, Dakshin Gangotri, is currently used as a supply base. India has demarcated an area beside Larsemann Hills  for construction. The survey has already been completed and the station is scheduled to be operational by 2012. Upon completion, India will be one of nine nations having multiple stations within the Antarctic Circle.

ALPH RIVER AND ONYX RIVER-----LOCATE HERE


VOLCANO HERE S ----MOUNT EREBUS



the following institute has fabricated an antenna
system which will be installed in India's base station (Bharti Station) on the icy
continent of Antarctica to provide communication link between Bharti Station and
National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Shadnagar-----Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL)








A soft launch of its 3rd research station “Bharti” in Antarctica’s
Larsemann Hills region by India
India does a soft launch of its 3rd Research Station “Bharti” in Antarctica’s Larsemann Hills
region considered as one of the few geological windows into the history of the continent.
The construction is over and it is being run on trial basis.
The formal launch of the research station, “Bharti” is anticipated in November 2102 when it
is summer time in Antarctica.
Objective: The research station would address the growing urge in the Indian scientific community for exploring deeper
and wider areas of Antarctica for better understanding of the huge continent.










Pandit Jasraj sings in Antarctica
 Noted classical singer Pandit Jasraj, who is 82, gave a performance at the South Pole, becoming the first Indian to
do so.
 An exponent of Mewati gharana, Pandit Jasraj is probably the most popular classical singer in India after Pandit
Bhimsen Joshi, who passed away in January last year.
 Apart from numerous other awards he was awarded Padma Vibhushan, (art-classical music-vocal) in 2000. He got
the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1987 and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 2010.





Grant Kogan: First adaptive athlete in history to reach the South Pole
 Grant Kogan. a paralyzed man from the U.S. state of Nevada has become the first adaptive athlete in history to
reach the South Pole.
 Grant Kogan completed his trip to the Antarctic South Pole on the 100th anniversary of Robert Falcon Scott’s trek
there with the Terra Nova Expedition.
 Kogan was paralyzed from the waist down in a 2010 snowmobiling accident. He used a device called a sit-ski to
make the trip, traveling for more than two weeks in sub-zero temperatures.
 His expedition party included guides and cinematographers who were shooting for a documentary called “The
Push: A South Pole Adventure.”
 The film will be released in later part of 2012.