Vivencias distantes

• Main Author: Montalbán, Cristina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro de estudios hemisféricos y polares 2013
• Subjects: Historia; Antártida; Misión Oficial; Armada Uruguaya; History; Antartic; Official Mission; Uruguayan Navy; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Argentina; Argentine; Uruguay; Misiones; Hector; Misión; Varela; Uruguaya; Antarc*; antartic*
• Online Access: http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=4685732

Many of the ships that brought scientific expeditions to the Antarctic in preparation for the IGY from 1955 on passed through Montevideo, giving rise to great expectations regarding this event. Uruguay, which had planned to participate in four areas of the programme: gravimetry, meteorology, solar patrols and oceanography, did not manage to obtain the necessary parliamentary approval in time so as to take part. Nevertheless, as regards the Navy, where the Antarctic topic -from always- had a transcendent meaning, a area for participation was found, with their acceptance an invitation from the Argentine navy, so that two missions, each of which was made up of two naval officers, joined the members of the Antarctic task Force. The first of these, integrated with the XXI Campaign, Naval Lieutenant Ruben Varela and Second Lieutenant Hector Bomio, who took part in the preparatory phase of the IGY from September 26, 1956 to March 19, 1957. The second mission -XII Campaign- had the participation of Naval Lieutenant Carlos Rico and Second Lieutenant Germán Lariau and took place between January 26 and March 20, 1957. The documentation that the officers Bomio and Lariau gathered (which today form part of the Archives of the CEHIS) as well as the interview with Captain Rico, carried out as part of this work, permits us to know the distribution of specific jobs, but above all to calibrate this atypical experience meant professionally for these members of the Uruguayan navy. Un gran número de naves que trasladaban hacia la Antártida misiones científicas en preparación del AGI arribaron participar en 4 puntos del programa: gravimetría, meteorología, patrullaje del sol y oceanografía, no logró en tiempo la aprobación parlamentaria de los fondos necesarios para integrarse. No obstante, en el ámbito de la Marina, donde el tema antártico- desde siempre- tiene un significado trascendente, se encontró un espacio de participación, al aceptarse la invitación de la Amada Argentina, para que dos misiones, conformadas cada una por dos ...