Tag: Marambio base

• Monday, June 3rd 2024 - 08:31 UTC

  Argentine Air Force Saab 340 makes new successful flight to Antarctica

  

  An Argentine Air Force (FAA) Saab 340 turboprop twin-engined aircraft made a successful flight to the Petrel Base in Antarctica on Saturday, thus proving once again the model's adaptability to the region.

• Monday, April 15th 2024 - 10:34 UTC

  Argentine Air Force Saab 340B makes successful first flight to Marambio Base in Antarctica

  

  The Argentine Air Force (FAA) has added the Swedish-built Saab 340B twin turboprop to the list of aircraft able to perform logistics missions to Antarctica after a successful first flight last week. The model is ideal for small-size operations that would otherwise require the services of the much larger and four-engined Lockheed C-130 Hercules.

• Saturday, January 6th 2024 - 11:03 UTC

  Milei arrives in Rio Gallegos enroute to Antarctica

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei landed at around 8.30 pm Friday in Río Gallegos to stay the night before flying on to the Marambio Base in Antarctica. Traveling with the head of state were Ministers Diana Mondino (Foreign Affairs), Guillermo Francos (Interior), and Luis Petri (Defense) as well as Presidential Secretary Karina Milei, among other officials making up the entourage of 23.

• Tuesday, January 2nd 2024 - 10:05 UTC

  Milei traveling to Antarctica this week

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei will be traveling to Antarctica this coming Friday, Jan. 5, alongside Ministers Diana Mondino (Foreign Affairs) and Luis Petri (Defense), it was reported in Buenos Aires. The head of state intends to launch a “pollution control,” according to Casa Rosada sources.

• Thursday, February 23rd 2023 - 09:32 UTC

  President Fernández sends message from “the end of the world”

  

  In a message broadcast from the Marambio Base in Antarctica, Argentine President Alberto Fernández Wednesday underlined his country's 119th year of uninterrupted presence in the so-called White Continent. “Here, at the end of the world, one can assume the dimension of the Homeland,” said Fernández during the Antarctica Day celebrations.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2023 - 06:59 UTC

  President Fernández traveling to Antarctica, weather permitting

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández is to visit the Marambio Base in Antarctica in a move to ratify the country's “bicontinental” stance, it was reported in Casa Rosada. Fernández's trip will be the fourth visit of an Argentine head of state to Antarctica.

• Thursday, October 20th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Argentine NCO survives sledgehammer attack at Marambio Base

  

  An Argentine military man assaulted his superior non-commissioned officer “with a blunt instrument” while he was sleeping at the Marambio Base in Antarctica.

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Argentine ministers convene in Antarctica

  

  Argentine Ministers Daniel Filmus (Science), Carla Vizzotti (Health), and Jorge Taiana (Defense) convened at Antarctica's Marambio Base to announce the construction of three new laboratories and other undertakings in the area.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Argentina announces the construction of labs in Antarctica to reaffirm science and sovereignty

  

  Argentina will create “Antarctic Multidisciplinary Laboratories” to further promote research in the country's bases in the white continent, in the framework of the program “Building Science”. The program is sponsored by the ministries of Foreign Affairs; Science, Technology and Innovation, and Defense, and has specific funds earmarked.

• Monday, December 16th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Icebreaker “Almirante Irizar” completing a supply round of Argentine Antarctic bases and stations

  

  Argentina's icebreaker ARA Almirante Irizar has completed its round of supplying Antarctic bases, on time and according to planning, reports the Antarctic Joint Command. The bases involved are Esperanza, Marambio and Carlini.