The construction of the Czech polar station, after being filmed, has also been exhibited

PRAGUE - The construction of the Czech polar station, which was built by a group of polar explorers on Ross Island from January to March of this year, has not only been immortalized in a documentary film but also at the exhibition "Czechs in Antarctica" at the National Museum. The first Czech scientific station on the white continent is the largest realized dream of Czech polar explorers, said the author of the exhibition Hynek Adámek, who helped to build it.
Research activities have already started on Ross Island. Visitors can learn about some of the results and the natural conditions of the island at the exhibition. The exhibition also features a continuous screening of the documentary film.
The stories of Czechs in Antarctica, however, begin much earlier, deep in the last century. The first was Václav Vojtěch, according to Adámek, who arrived at the frozen continent on January 27, 1929, aboard the ship Eleanor Bolling. It brought supplies for the polar explorers, who were living in the camp Little America under the command of Admiral Richard Byrd. Visitors to the exhibition will see some of Vojtěch's equipment.
A special chapter is the period between 1957 and 1970, when 12 scientists and journalists gradually worked in Antarctica at Soviet polar stations.
The exhibition also remembers the research carried out in Antarctica by polar explorer Josef Sekyra, who, as the first Czechoslovak, reached the South Pole on December 26, 1969. Visitors will also learn about the legal protection of the continent by international legislation, to which the Czech Republic has also joined. It will be open from November 17 to January 31.