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Pe urmele lui Emil Racovita (Jurnal de calatorie - fragment)
Following Emil Racovita (Travel Journal - a fragment)

Author(s): Pompiliu Manea
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Scientific Life
Published by: Asociația Cultural Științifică „Dimitrie Ghika-Comănești”
Keywords: Antarctica; expedition; Belgica; Emil Racovitza; ice shelf;

Summary/Abstract: A group of six persons from the city Cluj-Napoca from Romania went on an expedition on the footsteps of Emil Racovitza and the Belgica Expedition (1897–1899). That expedition took place at the end of the Sixth century and it was the first international expedition and recherché that spent the winter in Antarctica, being trapped and stuck between the ice shelf in the winter of the year 1898, and staid prisoner for 13 months. The expeditions of the people from Cluj took place between the period 23 February and 20 march 2014, at the end of the Antarctic summer, from witch two weeks were spent on the Antarctic Continent (Antarctic Peninsula), and in that the most stops were similar to the Belgica Expedition itinerary from 1897–1899.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 43-50
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian