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The activity of the Department of Polar and Marine Research at the Institute of Geophysics PAS has been briefly outlined by a participant and witness of the reported events, working there over the years 1977–2002.
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Stanisław Baranowski died in Poland in 1978, after a tragic accident during the Polish Antarctic Expedition to King George Island.
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I am grateful to all my colleagues from the Polar Community for their help in collecting the materials for writing this historical outline, in particular to Maciej Zalewski, the many-year head of the Department of Polar and Marine Research. Thanks are also due to my friends from the Editorial Office of the Institute of Geophysics, Anna Dziembowska and Zofia Okrasińska, for editing the text.
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Górski, M. (2014). Department of Polar and Marine Research: The Hornsund Station and Other Activities in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions. In: Bialik, R., Majdański, M., Moskalik, M. (eds) Achievements, History and Challenges in Geophysics. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07599-0_9
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