Thirty years of Ukrainian Antarctic Research: Assessing the National Antarctic Program’s institutional achievements within the Antarctic Treaty System
Journal: Ukrainian Antarctic Journal
Year: 2023

Ukraine made a significant contribution to the study of the Antarctic. People from Ukraine were part of the expeditions that discovered and explored the Antarctic and conquered the South Pole in the XIX – beginning of the XX century. From the end of the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s, Ukrainian researchers and engineers made valuable efforts to establish and develop Soviet Antarctic expeditions. With the acquisition of independence, the difficult and ambitious path of studying the Antarctic