Fun Fact!!!
Remember to double-check the address the next time you mail a letter to a friend in Panaji… Otherwise, your letter could end up in… Antarctica!
During the seventh Indian expedition, a post office was established at “Dakshin Gangotri” under the aegis of the North Goa postal division, Goa Panaji region, Maharashtra circle with pin code 403001.
The first letter was posted on January 26, 1988, on Republic Day. Scientist G. Sudhakar Rao was appointed as the first Honorary Postmaster. He had gone to the Antarctic as a member of the Seventh Indian Scientific Expedition in 1987.
“Dakshin Gangotri” was India’s first research station in Antarctica, established in 1983 on the Prince Astrid ice shelf. It had to be decommissioned in 1988–1989 after the whole place got buried under a heavy blanket of snow and is now marked as a historical site.
“Maitri,” the second Indian station, was built in 1988–89, while the third station, “Bharati,” became operational in 2012 at Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica.
The coordinating agency of the Indian Antarctic Expeditions, the National Center for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), is situated at Vasco.Goan Wordle
