site.btaGreece to Send Scientists to Antarctica for First Time, Bulgarian Antarctic Base to Host Them

Greece will send scientists to Antarctica for the first time. They will be part of the next Bulgarian expedition and will travel aboard the research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril and Metodii, said in an interview with BTA the president of the NGO Hellenic Polar zone society, Simeon Konstantinidis, a retired officer of the Greek Navy with experience in oceanography and meteorology. He was a participant in the International Polar Conference for cooperation between the Balkan countries in the polar regions under the European programmes EUPolarNet-2 and POLARIN, held in Aheloy (on the Black Sea) during the weekend.