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Every year, starting in 2017, Italy sends a ship to the Arctic. A real floating laboratory, installed on the Alliance ship , which basically responds to the owner: NATO. The “ High North ” mission , led by the Hydrographic Institute of the Navy of Genoa , usually hosts about seventy scientists, researchers and ship officers.
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August 12, 2020 (Google Translation) – – The multipurpose ship Alliance , after more than sixty days of navigation, has returned to the Naval Base of La Spezia with the scientific team of the Hydrographic Institute of the Navy on board . Launched last June 22, during the period of activity in the northern seas, the ship carried out over…
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July 29, 2020 (Google Translation) – Yesterday, July 28, 2020, Alliance ship returned to the Norwegian port of Tromsø, thus closing the High North20, before three Arctic research campaigns of the three-year High North 2020-2022 program. The research activities and scientific objectives of High North20 have been achieved, while respecting the stringent health protocols aimed at containing the emergency COVID…
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July 9, 2020 (Google Translation) – Yesterday afternoon, July 8, 2020, Alliance ship, the Navy’s multi-purpose hydro-oceanographic research unit left the Norwegian port of Tromsø, after a brief technical stop, to head towards the scientific research areas of the High North campaign20 , in east of the Strait of Fram and north of the Svalbard Islands. After leaving Italy on…
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June 22, 2020 (Google Translation) – The Navy and the Hydrographic Institute return to the Arctic with the Alliance ship for the new three-year research in marine geophysics HIGH NORTH 2020-2022. The Navy’s HIGH NORTH20 campaign is aimed at ensuring the continuity of environmental observations useful to the international and national scientific community. In particular, as for all Navy ships…
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