SPRI Polar Directory
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Comité Nacional de Investigaciones Antárticas (CNIA)
Website: | www.inach.cl/antartica/cnia.html |
Address: | Av Luis Thayer Ojeda 814, Santiago |
E-mail: | scarnac@inach.cl |
Telephone: | +56-2-23-16327 |
Activities: | National Member of SCAR. In addition to INACH, includes representatives from other government agencies with Antarctic interests: Dirección Meteorológica de Chile, Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Instituto de Fomento Pesquero, etc.). |
Departamento de Asuntos Antárticos del Ejército
Website: | www.ejercito.cl/estructura/antartica.htm |
E-mail: | correo@ejercito.cl |
Estado Mayor de la Defensa Nacional, Sección Antártica
Activities: | Responsible for logistical support to the national Antarctic programme. |
Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH)
Website: | www.inach.cl |
Address: | Av Luis Thayer Ojeda 814, Correo Sucursal 21, Santiago |
E-mail: | inach@inach.cl |
Telephone: | +56-2-231-0105 |
Fax: | +56-2-232-0440 |
Year of foundation: | 1964 |
Activities: | National Antarctic operating agency responsible for planning and coordinating scientific and technical projects undertaken by government and by private organizations, in addition to carrying out its own research programme. Maintains the all-year scientific stations Capitan Arturo Prat (62.30'S; 59.41'W), General Bernardo O'Higgins (63.19'S; 57.54'W) and Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Martin (62.12'S; 58.54'W). National Antarctic mapping centre. Library. |
Publications: | Boletín Antártico Chileno (1981-, 2pa) [continues Revista de Difusión (1976-80), previously Boletin de Difusion (1965-75)]; Serie Cientifica (1970-, annual) source of further information: Boletín Antártico Chileno, 1994, Vol. 13(1), pp. 1-39. [special issue commemorating the 30th anniversary of INACH.] |
Instituto de Fomento Pesquero [Fishery Research Institute]
[Fishery Research Institute] | |
Website: | www.ifop.cl |
Address: | Avda José Domingo Canas 2277, Casilla 1287, Santiag |
E-mail: | info@ifop.cl |
Year of foundation: | 1964 |
Activities: | National centre for research into fisheries and marine biology. |
Publications: | Boletín Bibliográfico (?-, 4pa); Investigación Pesquera (1965-) |
Instituto Geográfico Militar
Website: | www.igm.cl |
Address: | Nueva Santa Isabel 1640, Santiago |
E-mail: | planificacion@igm.cl |
Telephone: | +56-2-6968221 |
Fax: | +56-2-698727 |
Year of foundation: | 1922 |
Activities: | National survey and mapping agency whose responsibilities include Antarctic land survey and map compilation. |
Publications: | Terra Australis (?-, annual) |
Instituto Hidrográfico de la Armada
Website: | www.conicyt.cl/legislacion/est-org-nacionales/hidrogr2.html |
Address: | Valparaís |
E-mail: | info@conicyt.cl |
Year of foundation: | 1874 |
Publications: | Diccionario de nombres geográficos de la costa de Chile. Vol. 3. Territorio Antártico (1974) |
Programa Regional de Oceanografía Física y Clima
Website: | www.profc.udec.cl |
E-mail: | www@profc.udec.cl |
Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada (SHOA)
Website: | www.shoa.cl |
Address: | Errazuriz 232, Playa Ancha, Valparaíso |
E-mail: | shoa@shoa.cl |
Fax: | +56-32-283537 |
Activities: | Responsible for Antarctic nautical charts. publishes: General instructions for pilotage in the waterways of the Chilean Antarctic Territory (1993) |
Universidad de Magallanes
Website: | www.umag.cl |
Address: | Centro Austral Antártico, Casilla de Correos 113-D, Punta Arenas, Magallanes |
E-mail: | conantar@ona.fi.umag.cl |
Fax: | +54-61-219276 |
Universidad de Magallanes, Instituto de la Patagonia
Website: | www.umag.cl |
Address: | Avda Bulnes, Km. 4 Norte, Casilla de Correos 113-D, Punta Arenas, Magallanes |
Telephone: | +54-61-212945/212913 |
Fax: | +54-61-212973 |
Year of foundation: | 1969 [Incorporated in Universidad de Magellanes in 1985] |
Activities: | Carries out research in southern Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and adjacent islands, and the Southern Ocean in both human sciences (history, archaeology, biodemography, physical anthropology) and the natural sciences (botany, zoology, entomology, marine biology, climatology, geology, glaciology, ecology). Library. |
Publications: | Anales (1970-83) [Sub-divided as Serie Ciencias Humanas (1984-, annual) and Anales. Serie Ciencias Naturales (1984-, annual)]; Serie Monografías (1970-) |