page_title: Dirigibile Italia Arctic Station
hierarchical_section_title: Dirigibile Italia Arctic Station
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Stazione Dirigibile Italia a Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard English: Dirigibile Italia station in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard
context_page_description: The Dirigibile Italia Arctic station is an Italian research station in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway.
  Managed by the National Research Council of Italy, it was inaugurated in May 1997, in memory of the airship Italia expedition of Umberto Nobile.
  It is a 330 m² permanent research station with laboratories and offices which can host up to seven people, but it is inhabited only in case of ongoing scientific activities; the scientific studies, coordinated by the CNR Polar Network, include: "chemistry and physics of the atmosphere, marine biology, technology research, oceanography/limnology, environmental studies, human biology and medicine".
  The research station runs also the Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower, measuring atmospheric parameters, installed by the Kings Bay and inaugurated on 30 April 2009.
context_section_description: The Dirigibile Italia Arctic station (in Italian: Base artica Dirigibile Italia) is an Italian research station in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway.
  Managed by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), it was inaugurated in May 1997, in memory of the airship Italia expedition of Umberto Nobile (1928).
  It is a 330 m² permanent research station with laboratories and offices which can host up to seven people, but it is inhabited only in case of ongoing scientific activities; the scientific studies, coordinated by the CNR Polar Network, include: "chemistry and physics of the atmosphere, marine biology, technology research, oceanography/limnology, environmental studies, human biology and medicine".
  The research station runs also the Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower, measuring atmospheric parameters, installed by the Kings Bay and inaugurated on 30 April 2009.
caption: Airship Italia Arctic station in 2012
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