Just a few hours from now Bulgarian swimmer Petar Stoychev and 15 other swimmers from 9 countries are leaving by ship from Punta Arenas in Chile bound for Antarctica, where they will take part in the first swimming race ever organized in the icy..
The first group from the 27 th Bulgarian Antarctic expedition – a logistics team of eight, plus two biologists - is setting out for the South Pole on 9 November. Another three groups of expedition members will leave in December and January. This..
A Cooperation Agreement between the Portuguese Polar Program (PROPOLAR) and the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute has been signed at the University of Lisbon. The occasion was the tenth anniversary of the start of Bulgarian-Portuguese studies in..
Why don’t polar bears eat penguins? Anybody able to answer this question earns the chance of being selected for the next expedition to Antarctica. In fact, the answer is that polar bears live in the Arctic, and penguins - in Antarctica...
Permanent and stable Wi-Fi connection has been established between the Bulgarian Antarctic base of "St. Kliment Ohridski" and the neighboring Spanish base "Juan Carlos I." This was announced by professor Hristo Pimpirev, Chairman of the Board of the..
The latest group from Bulgaria’s 25 th jubilee Antarctic expedition bound for Livingston Island includes two building surveyors from the Ministry of Defence cartography department. The army surveyors will continue the ambitious project of filming..
