Prof. Lyubomir Ivanov involved in a research mission in Antarctica

We are happy to receive greetings for the New Year by our good WAP friend Prof. Lyubomir Ivanov who is actually in Antarctica, on board of the Bulgarian naval ship RSV 421, preparing (weather permitting) for a research mission on the forbidding Smith Island.

Smith island doesn’t host research stations or camps, and is seldom visited by scientists or mountaineers. Its interior is entirely occupied by the Imeon Range, rising to 2,025 m (6,644 ft) (Mount Foster). The first detailed topographic mapping of the island was made by the “Antarctic Place-names Commission” and the Military Geographic Service of the Bulgarian Army and published in 2009 in both English and Bulgarian.

See the very accurate map at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg  

Prof. Lyubomir Ivanov (pic aside) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (born 7 October 1952 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian scientist, and Antarctic explorer. He is a graduate of the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia with M.S. degree in mathematics in 1977. He earned his PhD from Sofia University in 1980, under the direction of Dimiter Skordev with a dissertation titled Iterative Operative Spaces, and was the 1987 winner of Acad. Nikola Obreshkov Prize, the highest Bulgarian award in mathematics. Initiator and participant in Bulgarian mapping and place naming (some 400 Bulgarian names) in Antarctica.

Expert on geographic names, Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) since 2006.
Topographic surveys and mapping in four Bulgarian Antarctic expeditions during the 1994/95, 1995/96, 2002/03, and 2004/05 austral summers.

Ivanov has taken part in several Antarctic expeditions. In 2004, Ivanov went with Doychin Vasilev on the Tangra 2004 topographic expedition, noted by Discovery Channel, the Natural History Museum, the Royal Collection and the British Antarctic Survey as a timeline event in Antarctic exploration.[12][13][14] Awarded the jubilee medal 30th Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute for his active participation in the expeditions and in the building of St. Kliment Ohridski Polar Base.

If the readers wish to look the list of the so many books and publications by Prof. Lyubomir Ivanov, check here: http://www.math.bas.bg/logic/ivanovll/Lyubomir-Ivanov.html 

TNX Prof. Lyubomir Ivanov

Let’s hope one day, when in Antarctica, our friend Lyubo can involve some Hamradio operator to join him and maybe activate the last Bulgarian rare spot: Camp Academia (WAP BUL-New) listed on WAP WADA-Directory.