The Dirigibile Italia Arctic station (in Italian: ''Base artica Dirigibile Italia'') is an Italian
research station in
Ny-Ålesund
Ny-Ålesund ("New Ålesund") is a small town in Oscar II Land on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway. It is situated on the Brøgger peninsula ( Brøggerhalvøya) and on the shore of the bay of Kongsfjorden. The company town is owned and ...
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Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...
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Norway.
Managed by the
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), it was inaugurated in May 1997, in memory of the
airship ''Italia'' expedition of
Umberto Nobile (1928).
It is a permanent research station with laboratories and offices which can host up to seven people, but it is inhabited only in case of ongoing scientific activities. Studies coordinated by CNR focus on the intricate climatic interactions among the atmosphere, the
hydrosphere, the
biosphere, the
lithosphere
A lithosphere () is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite. On Earth, it is composed of the crust (geology), crust and the portion of the upper mantle (geology), mantle that behaves elastically on time sca ...
, and the
cryosphere.
The research station also runs the
Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower, measuring atmospheric parameters, installed by the
Kings Bay and inaugurated on 30 April 2009.
See also
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List of research stations in the Arctic
A number of governments maintain permanent research stations in the Arctic. Also known as Arctic bases, polar stations or ice stations, these bases are widely distributed across the northern polar region of Earth.
Historically few research st ...
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Ny-Ålesund
1997 establishments in Norway