India has two active research stations -- Maitri and Bharti -- in Antarctica. The first research station, Dakshin Gangotri was set up in 1983. It had to be abandoned after it sank in the snow.

India's research activities in Antarctica commenced in 1981 with the launch of the first indigenous mission. While the first Indian research base, Dakshin Gangotri, was set up in 1983, research ...

An aerial view of the under-construction Dakshin Gangotri, India’s first scientific base, in 1984. Indian scientists reached Antarctica on Dec 26, 1983 PANAJI: Just days after an 81-member ...

Pin Code Mh-1718: India set up its first post office in Antarctica’s Dakshi Gangotri in the year 1984. Within a year more than 10,000 letters and mail had been posted and ‘cancelled’ at the ...

PANAJI: India's modern scientific research station Maitri II, which is expected to come up at Antarctica, will study the East Antarctica Ice Sheet and.

Having been left out of 1959’s Antarctica Treaty, ... 1984 and a few months afterwards an unmanned Antarctic research base ... It provides a detailed legal framework for India’s Antarctic ...

Expert behind first India Antarctic base is ISC fellow. ... Dakshin Gangotri, in Antarctica, as he led the third Indian Scientific Expedition to the icy continent.