Antarctica research agencies

United Kingdom's national Antarctic operation

international organization

German research institution

Antarctica research agency of the Soviet Union

Russian research institute, part of Roshydromet

ANSMET (Antarctic Search for Meteorites) is a program funded by the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation that looks for meteorites in the Transantarctic Mountains. This geographical area serves as a collection point for meteorites that have originally fallen on the extensive high-altitude ice fields throughout Antarctica. Such meteorites are quickly covered by subsequent snowfall and begin a centuries-long journey traveling "downhill" across the Antarctic continent while embedded in a vast sheet of flowing ice. Portions of such flowing ice can be halted by natural barrie

Chilean institute

French organization leading France's National Antarctic Program

Uruguayan governmental agency

scientific program