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Estonia and Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2011

Enn Kaup  and
Erki Tammiksaar
Enn Kaup
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, 19086, Tallinn, Estonia
Erki Tammiksaar
Affiliation:
Centre for Science Studies, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Veski 4, 51005, Tartu, Estonia (erki.tammiksaar@emu.ee)
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Abstract

The Russian South Pole expedition carried out in 1819–1821 was an early milestone in the scientific exploration of the Antarctic. The expedition took place under the command of the Baltic German Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. Bellingshausen came from the Island of Saaremaa in Estonia. The Russian empire, and followed by the Soviet Union, did not attach much importance to Bellingshausen's expedition. It was only after World War II as the question of the Antarctic received close attention that the Bellingshausen expedition received political significance in the Soviet Union. The fact that the expedition really took place was used by the Soviet Union to claim rights to the Antarctic and also to argue for its participation in Antarctic exploration (see Tammiksaar 2007; Bulkeley 2011). In the early stages of exploration of the continent, Estonians were given the opportunity to carry out investigations there. The first Estonian research programme in the Antarctic, on noctilucent clouds, was elaborated by the astronomer Charles Villmann. Altogether some tens of Estonians have visited the southern continent performing investigations in earth sciences, atmospheric physics, hydrology and ecology of surface waters and the human influence on them. They have also carried out isotope studies of the ice sheet to reconstruct environmental conditions in the past.

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Polar Record , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 1 - 8
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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