The French Polar Institute Paul-Émile Victor (, IPEV) is the organization leading the French
National Antarctic Program
A national Antarctic program is any government operated or supported program which is mandated with managing the support of scientific research and contributing to the governance and protection of the Antarctic environment on behalf of its nation a ...
since 1992.
Based in
Plouzané
Plouzané () is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
History
The shores south of Plouzané are in a strategic location for the defense of the Goulet de Brest strait and were fortified by Sébastien Le P ...
,
Finistère
Finistère (, ; ) is a Departments of France, department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. Its prefecture is Quimper and its largest city is Brest, France, Brest. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.[Dumont d'Urville Station
The Dumont d'Urville Station () is a French scientific station in Antarctica on Île des Pétrels, Géologie Archipelago, archipelago of Pointe-Géologie in Adélie Land. It is named after exploration, explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, whose expe ...]
and jointly operates the
Concordia Station
Concordia Research Station, which opened in 2005, is a French–Italian research facility managed by l' Institut polaire français Paul-Émile Victor and Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide, that was built above sea level on a geogra ...
with the Italians and the
AWIPEV Arctic Research Station with the Germans.
It also supports activities at the Martin de Viviés scientific station on
ÃŽle Amsterdam
(), also known as Amsterdam Island or New Amsterdam (), is an island of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the southern Indian Ocean that together with neighbouring ÃŽle Saint-Paul to the south forms one of the five districts of the t ...
.
See also
*
List of organizations based in Antarctica
This is a list of organizations based in Antarctica.
Organizations based in Antarctica
* Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition
Antarctic agencies
* Antarctica New Zealand
* Argentine Antarctic Program
* Australian Antarctic Division
* Brazilia ...
References
External links
*
Official Site of IPEV
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Antarctica research agencies
Research institutes in France
France and the Antarctic