Dirigibile Italia Arctic Station
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Airship Italia Arctic station Base artica Dirigibile Italia |
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Airship Italia Arctic station in 2012
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 Airship Italia Arctic station
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| Coordinates: 78°55′N 11°56′E / 78.917°N 11.933°ECoordinates: 78°55′N 11°56′E / 78.917°N 11.933°E | |
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 Italy
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| Named for | Airship Italia |
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| • Type | Polar Research Organisation |
| • Body | National Research Council of Italy |
The Dirigibile Italia Arctic station (in Italian: Base artica Dirigibile Italia) is an Italian research station in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway.
Managed by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), it was inaugurated in May 1997, in memory of the Airship Italia expedition of Umberto Nobile (1928).
It is a 330 m² permanent research station with laboratories and offices which can host up to seven people, but it is inhabited only in case of ongoing scientific activities; the scientific studies, coordinated by the CNR Polar Network, include: "chemistry and physics of the atmosphere, marine biology, technology research, oceanography/limnology, environmental studies, human biology and medicine".
The research station runs also the Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower, measuring atmospheric parameters, installed by the Kings Bay and inaugurated on 30 April 2009.
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