page_title: Emil Racoviță
section_title: Belgica expedition
hierarchical_section_title: Emil Racoviță / Belgica expedition
caption_attribution_description: The BELGICA anchored at Mount William
context_page_description: Emil Gheorghe Racoviță was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and Antarctic explorer.
  Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania. Racoviță was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the Antarctic. He was an influential professor, scholar and researcher, and served as President of the Romanian Academy from 1926 to 1929.
context_section_description: As a promising young scientist, Racoviță was selected to be part of an international team that started out on a research expedition to Antarctica, aboard the Belgica. The expedition was led by the Belgian officer Adrien de Gerlache, who was also the ship's owner.
caption: Belgica in the Gerlache Strait
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