site.btaSecond Group of 32nd Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition Departs Friday for Punta Arenas

The second group of the 32nd National Antarctic Expedition departs on December 29, at 4:30 p.m. from Sofia Airport Terminal 2, on ITA Airways flight AZ 621, on the route Sofia - Rome - Buenos Aires - Rio Gayegos - Punta Arenas, Prof Christo Pimpirev, head of the expedition and Chair of the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, said on Thursday.

In the second group of the Bulgarian expedition are: geologist Kalin Naydenov, electrical engineer Krasimir Krastev, music editor Marina Velikova, logistician Alexander Nedyalkov and the two famous mountaineers, Mount Everest conquerors - Kiril Doskov and Associate Professor Dr. Doichin Boyanov.

From the Chilean port of Punta Arenas, the group will sail to the Bulgarian Antarctic station on Livingston Island on January 1, on the Brazilian Research ship Almirante Maximiano.

The mountaineers will support, as field assistants, the realization of an ambitious scientific project to study the geological composition and history of the extremely difficult to reach, neighboring the Bulgarian station, Smith Island, which is the highest in the South Shetland archipelago.

As BTA reported, the first group of the 32nd National Antarctic Expedition left Wednesday for Ushuaia, Argentina. It left on a flight from Sofia Airport on the route Sofia - Rome - Buenos Aires - Ushuaia.

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During the 32nd Bulgarian expedition to Antarctica, which started on November 8, 2023, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) is publishing interviews with Antarctic researchers. The Bulgaria-Antarctica BTA's Log again provides coverage of the voyage of the Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii to Antarctica and back and its stay there, as it did during the 31st expedition between December 27, 2022 and May 2, 2023. Back then, only BTA had a correspondent, Daily News Editor Konstantin Karagyozov, who covered the 127-day expedition with text, video and photos during the entire voyage (including across the Atlantic in both directions) and throughout the stay in Antarctica. In June 2023, BTA published in Bulgarian and in English an issue of its LIK magazine "To Antarctica and Back under the Bulgarian Flag" dedicated to the historic expedition.

Again, all of BTA's information on the Bulgarian scientific research in Antarctica and the support provided by the Bulgarian naval research vessel, as well as on the other activities at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base, will be available to all media outlets in Bulgarian and in English on BTA's website in the Bulgaria - Antarctica: BTA's Log section.

BTA has a National Press Club on board the ship and is planning to open a National Press Club at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island.