Desarrollo de la Antártica

EL DESARROLLO DE LA ANTÁRTICA this aid the ship carded two separate satellite navigation systems. It ís estimated that travelling at full speed along a cruise line the ship's positiO'ns were at all times known lW'ithin 200 m, and if {or special purposes we stayed in a fixed positiO'n then this could be determined tO' within abO'ut 10 m. TwO' men were responsible fO'r the navigation system,and this was O'perative throughO'ut the cmise. Bouvet0Ya After completing the work in Dronning Maud Land and the Wed– dell Sea the expeditiO'n spent three days wO'rking at BO'uvet0ya. An automatic weather statiO'ns, transmitting data on temperature, pres– sure and wind, was established O'n the western side O'f the island. Thís stadO'n is expected to be in cperation fOT 1 1 /2 year, and is transmit– ting its data via NIMBUS-6. The expedition alsO' did tide measurements, studied tihe biO'lO'gy and geO'logy ashore, and did oceanographic and marine biologic studies in the surrO'unding sea. CoNCLUSION This expeditíon has shO'wn that by usíng a small ice-breaker as a mO'bile research platform we can emplO'y techniques in the ice covered waters of Antarctica that are needed to solve many of the major questions now facing the Antarctic nations. The programme of the expeditíon was planned to obtain iníormation on some oí the questions which SCAR feels must be studied, in O'rder to prO'vide tIle Treaty Nations with tihe necessary informatiO'n to make welIfO'unded decisions on the difficult questiO'ns oí resources in Antarctica. As tille expedirion has recently returned we cannO't yet present many results, but Qver thenext mO'nths the data will be analyzed and presented to the international community. We canalready see, however, that manY more such studies are needed, and we hope tO' repeat this ldnd oí expedition in the 1978/7.9, season. 160