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Montevideo, March 31st 2026 - 08:29 UTC

Tag: Chilean Antarctic Institute (Inach)

  • Thursday, March 26th 2026 - 01:48 UTC

    International project validates renewable hydrogen energy systems in Antarctica

    INACH Director Gino Casassa said the green hydrogen pilot plant design is backed by approximately 200 million Chilean pesos in funding from GIZ and the European Union

    A delegation of Chilean and European authorities and institutions completed a technical visit to the “Profesor Julio Escudero” research station operated by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) on King George Island, where progress was presented on a pilot renewable hydrogen and energy infrastructure project designed to validate hybrid energy systems in one of the planet's most demanding environments.

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  • Saturday, January 4th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

    Boric reaches South Pole

    “From here everything is north,” Boric said

    Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Friday became the first Latin American leader and the third worldwide to reach the South Pole, thus consolidating his country's commitment to Antarctica. His feat followed in the footsteps of those authorities from New Zealand in 2007 and Norway in 2011. Boric dubbed his trip “a diplomatic, scientific, environmental and aeronautical milestone.” It also Chile as “the gateway to Antarctica,” he said.

  • Friday, August 6th 2021 - 07:28 UTC

    Green light to build an International Antarctic Center in Punta Arenas

    INACH head offices in Punta Arenas

    Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile will host the International Antarctic Center, CAI, a long-time project several times delayed but which finally was given the green light, and should begin to be built in the near future with an investment demanding some 75 million US dollars.

  • Friday, December 13th 2019 - 18:03 UTC

    Finding survivors from doomed Chilean Hercules unlikely but trips will continue

     It “is virtually impossible for survivors to exist,” said Merino.

    Chilean Air Force (FACh) Chief-of-Staff General Arturo Merino Núñez Thursday ruled out the possibility of finding any survivors from Monday's Hercules C-130 transport aircraft which crashed into the Drake Passage enroute to Antarctica with 38 people onboard after human parts from the wreckage were found later in the week.