The French Polar Effort and the Expeditions Polaires Francaises

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: LeSchack, Leonard A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1964
• Subjects: Cores; Coring; Drilling; Equipment and supplies; Motors; Yukon; Northern; Antarctic; Greenland; Paul-Emile Victor; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Arctic; Groenland
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66530

Reviews the development of EPF as a private organization under Paul-Emile Victor since 1947, its present status and future. Its organizational structure, financing by the French government, activities in Greenland and the Antarctic are described as is its changing relationship with government as result of France's expanded polar operations. EPF has organizational responsibility for the expeditions of Expedition Glaciologique Internationale au Groenland.