site.btaGroup of Antarctic Scientists and Journalists to Set Sail for King George Island on Way Back to Bulgaria

Members of the 34th Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition, led by its head Christo Pimpirev, will depart on Wednesday, February 11, on the naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) from the Bulgarian Base for King George Island.

The group also includes biotechnologist Kiril Kandilarov, journalists Zhivko Konstantinov and Anna Andreeva, and writer Vasil Popov.

From King George Island, they will continue by plane to Punta Arenas, Chile, and then on to Sofia.

At the Bulgarian Antarctic Base, scientific and logistical projects are planned for Wednesday, weather permitting.

RSV 421 set sail for the icy continent on November 7 from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna.

BTA has had a national press club on board the vessel since 2022. In February 2024, the national news agency also opened one at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island. The two press clubs exist thanks to the free support of the RSV 421 crew and of the Bulgarian base, which have provided the necessary premises. These are added to BTA's other 41 press clubs (33 in Bulgaria, seven abroad in neighbouring countries and countries with large Bulgarian communities, and one mobile called National Book Press Club).

The reports of BTA’s special correspondents from RSV 421 and from Antarctica are freely accessible in a special thematic section of the news agency’s website, entitled “Bulgaria-Antarctica BTA's Log,” in Bulgarian and English, and may be used freely by all media with attribution to BTA. According to BTA Director General Kiril Valchev, thanks to its special correspondents the agency appears among the first results in a Google search for the phrase “Antarctica correspondent”.