Advances in Earth Science ›› 1997, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (2): 127-133. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.1997.02.0127

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REVIEW OF CHINESE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS

CHEN Liqi   

  1. Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration,Beijing 100860
  • Received:1996-10-23 Online:1997-04-01 Published:1997-04-01

CHEN Liqi. REVIEW OF CHINESE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 1997, 12(2): 127-133.

Both of the Great Wall Station and Zhongshan Station were built as bases for Chinese Antarctic expedition in King George Island and Larsemann Hill respectively.An icebreaker “Xuelong” has replaced the old ships to take over its mission every year for transportation and research.The eleven voyages from five ships took 250 000 nautical mile and carried over 2 000 expeditioners to the Antarctica for summer and winter program.Science and scientific support work undertaken by the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration(CAA) cover a wide range of disciplines and activities including routine observations such as meteorology,geophysics,upper atmospheric physics,electric wave transfer,and glaciology,geology,geography,environment,geodesy,biology,human biology,oceanography,and so on in the projects of the multidiscipline survey in the Southern Ocean,the seventh five year plan,and the eighth five year plan.Dozens of monograph on polar sciences have published.The ninth five year plan for Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition will pay an attention to Antarctic asset maintenance to achieve the optimum performance of two stations,environmental monitoring and improvement,researches linking to Global Changes.

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