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Comité Nacional de Investigaciones Antárticas (CNIA)

Website: www.inach.cl/antartica/cnia.html
Address: Av Luis Thayer Ojeda 814, Santiago
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.).

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Consejo de Política Antártica (CPA)

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Departamento Antártico de la Armada

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Departamento de Asuntos Antárticos del Ejército

Website: www.ejercito.cl/estructura/antartica.htm

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Dirección Meteorológica de Chile

Website: www.meteochile.cl

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División Antártica de la Fuerza Aérea

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Estado Mayor de la Defensa Nacional, Sección Antártica

Activities: Responsible for logistical support to the national Antarctic programme.

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Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH)

Website: www.inach.cl
Address: Av Luis Thayer Ojeda 814, Correo Sucursal 21, Santiago
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.]

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Instituto de Fomento Pesquero [Fishery Research Institute]

[Fishery Research Institute]
Website: www.ifop.cl
Address: Avda José Domingo Canas 2277, Casilla 1287, Santiag
Year of foundation: 1964
Activities: National centre for research into fisheries and marine biology.
Publications: Boletín Bibliográfico (?-, 4pa); Investigación Pesquera (1965-)

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Instituto Geográfico Militar

Website: www.igm.cl
Address: Nueva Santa Isabel 1640, Santiago
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)

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Instituto Hidrográfico de la Armada

Website: www.conicyt.cl/legislacion/est-org-nacionales/hidrogr2.html
Address: Valparaís
Year of foundation: 1874
Publications: Diccionario de nombres geográficos de la costa de Chile. Vol. 3. Territorio Antártico (1974)

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Operadores Antárticos

Website: www.inach.cl/antartica/Comnap.html

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Programa Regional de Oceanografía Física y Clima

Website: www.profc.udec.cl

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Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada (SHOA)

Website: www.shoa.cl
Address: Errazuriz 232, Playa Ancha, Valparaíso
Fax: +56-32-283537
Activities: Responsible for Antarctic nautical charts. publishes: General instructions for pilotage in the waterways of the Chilean Antarctic Territory (1993)

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Universidad de Magallanes

Website: www.umag.cl
Address: Centro Austral Antártico, Casilla de Correos 113-D, Punta Arenas, Magallanes
Fax: +54-61-219276

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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-)

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