SANAE

SANAE

SANAE is the South African National Antarctic Expedition. The name refers both to the overwintering bases, (numbered in Roman numerals, eg. SANAE IV) and the team spending the winter (numbered in Arabic numerals, eg. SANAE 47). The current base, SANAE IV, is located at Vesleskarvet in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Summer teams comprise administrative and maintenance personnel, helicopter crew and scientists from various countries and can be up to 100 people. Overwintering teams are consist of scientists and support personnel from South Africa, typically totalling 10 members in recent years.

The research programme at SANAE is carried out under the auspices of the South African National Antarctic Programme (SANAP).

History

The first expedition, SANAE 1, overwintered at Norway Station, taken over by South Africa from Norway after the end of the IGY. Later teams overwintered at SANAE I, SANAE II and SANAE III, built on the Fimbul ice shelf near the island of Blaskimen. These stations were built on ice, and inevitably got buried and crushed. SANAE IV was built on the nunatak Vesleskarvet in the hope of having a base with a longer lifetime. The first team to overwinter at SANAE IV was SANAE 36 in 1997. The base has been manned uninterruptedly since then.

ee also

*List of Antarctic expeditions
*SANAE IV

External links

* [http://sanae.sanap.org.za SANAE]
* [http://www.plus40south.co.za Wiki site for Southern Ocean Islands and Antarctica]


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