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Mathematician for first traverse of Antarctic Tangra Mountains
Nov 3, 2004 19: 11 EST
Published on october 31, 2004
Bulgaria is off for an Antarctic mission this year under their sponsor's (Petrol Holding AD Company) motto: "Where there is one Bulgarian - There is Bulgaria!"
The scientific Tangra 2004 expedition will collect coordinates, elevation, and ice cover data on the mountain massif of Tangra situated on Livingston Island in the South Shetlands archipelago, to improve the mapping of the island.
40 peaks with sixteen peaks raising up to 1700m
To collect the numbers, the guys will make a first ever traverse of the Tangra Mountains, for a continuous ascent of all the peaks of its main range extending over 30 km between Barnard Point and Renier Point, - that's some 40 peaks with sixteen peaks raising to 1000 m above sea level and two of them even to 1700 m.
TV Documentary
The 2 expedition members are Dr. Lyubomir Ivanov, Chairman of the Antarctic Place-names Commission - Bulgaria (expedition leader) and Doychin Vasilev, expert in Alpine activities responsible both for safety during the work in and around the mountain massif, and for producing a TV documentary about the expedition work.
Sailing the Beagle Channel and Drake Passage in three days
The team will arrive Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, mid-November. A few days will be allowed for provisioning, and November 21, Lyubomir Ivanov and Doychin Vasilev will depart onboard the Uruguayan Antarctic naval ship Vanguardia, sailing the Beagle Channel and Drake Passage in three days.
A post office
The expedition base camp will be Camp Academia in the Wörner Gap area. The site has a central location in eastern Livingston Island, namely at the northern foot of Mount Friesland and the south extremity of Wörner Gap linking Bowles Ridge to Tangra Mountains. A post office of the Bulgarian Posts will be operating at the expedition camp! The Tangra Post office is the southernmost ever division of the Bulgarian Posts.
Expedition gear delayed
After landing, the guys will help open the St. Kliment Ohridski base for the the austral summer season, transport their equipment by ski-doos and set up the expedition camp in the Wörner Gap area to proceed with the survey of Tangra Mountains.
Expedition gear shipped to Antarctica by the Spanish Antarctic vessel Las Palmas has been delayed, so it had to be replenished on a short notice.
First Livingston Island, then Tangra Mountains
After completing their work on Livingston Island, the team is to sail back by the Antarctic cruise ship Akademik Vavilov scheduled to arrive in Ushuaia on 11 January 2005, and then fly north.
After establishing the base camp Academia, the two explorers/scientists will set to traverse and survey Tangra Mountains. Then, depending on weather and terrain conditions, and the availability of time, they will proceed to survey Livingston territories north of Wörner Gap.
Updates on the progress of the expedition will be posted on the expedition website (find it in the links section).
Born in 1952, Lyubomir Ivanov has truly kept himself busy. His merit list is too long to publish here, but in addition to publications (including two books, five monographic papers and two topographic maps) in mathematics and informatics, foreign and security policy, toponymics, and linguistics he is the winner of the 1987 Nikola Obreshkov Prize, Bulgaria’s highest award for scientific achievements in mathematics.
With a Ph.D. degree in Mathematical Logic in 1980 and M.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 1977, both from Sofia University, Lyubomir has done thre Topographic surveys and mapping in three Bulgarian Antarctic expeditions (1994-95, 1995-96, and 2003) and is also Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2001, and "Sponsor of the Parliamentary decision for Bulgaria to join the European Union (1990), and the Parliamentary decision for Bulgaria to participate in the Allied liberation of Kuwait (1990)"!
Image of Livingston Island and the two expedition members, Dr. Lyubomir Ivanov, right, and Doychin Vasilev, left, courtesy of the expedition.
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