Maintaining the research stations they established involved some 700 men braving incredibly harsh conditions.
Not exact matches
The Organization for Tropical Studies is a consortium of 63 universities and
research institutions from the U.S., Latin America, and Australia that conducts graduate and undergraduate education, facilitates
research, participates in tropical forest conservation,
maintains three biological
stations in Costa Rica, and conducts environmental education programs.
Seismic and geodetic measurements are being made at permanent
research stations maintained by Antarctic Treaty nations, and by Arctic nations.
In a ruling handed down on the 17th of December 2015, effectively overturning the decision of the lower courts, the Court of Appeal of Brussels
maintained that it was illegal for the Belgian State to end its partnership with the International Polar Foundation with regard to the management of the Antarctic
research station.
The National Park Service (NPS)
maintains two airstrips, a ranger
station and a
research station on San Miguel Island.
Within the Seven
Station series of records
maintained by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, 25.5 % of all raw temperatures were logged as a whole.0 Fahrenheit integer before Celsius metrication on 1 July 1971.
Australia, which has territorial claims on vast areas of the Antarctic continent,
maintains three
research stations there.