Prof. PhD Julius Fabbri IV3CCT , a science teacher in Italy , was in Antarctica in 2003 and from that time, 
he’s fighting to achieve a very specific goal: that of obtaining the recognition of Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) to what remains (ruins) of the Italian Giacomo Bove base at Italia Valley in the South Shetlands-Antarctica.
The pic aside shows Prof. PhD Julius Fabbri and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani who holds the model (scale 1:50) of the Giacomo Bove station (WAP ITA-Ø2)
Here a brief summary of the facts:
The largest and only independent Italian Antarctic expedition was led by Renato Cepparo in 1976-77 to the South Shetland lslands by the Norwegian ship Rig Mare. It was privately funded and fully self-suffícient. and had the aim of carrying out scientific measurements and leaving a pemanent refuge on the Antarctic Peninsula. Fifteen men, among whom were the deputy leader Flavio Barbiero, a medicai doctor, two divers and four mountaineers who climbed seven peaks on King George Island, were put ashore at King George Island. The geologists Gian Camillo Cortemiglia and Remo Terranova were in charge of the scientific part. Cepparo and his companions landed on King George Island and erected a small building that they named after Giacomo Bove. Today the only remains are the abandoned walls of the station and a wooden table. inscribed by Ing. Admiral Flavio Barbiero. The area stili keeps the name Italia Valley.
In 2018 in Cervignano del Friuli (Italy), thank to the inexhaustible commitment of Prof. Julius Fabbri (IV3CCT) an “Italia Valley Antarctic Memorial” has been made to celebrate this expedition. With the help of the students a 1:1 scale replica of building, the wooden table and the ruins of the Renato Cepparo/Giacomo Bove Station as open-air part of an indoor permanent Museum of Italia Valley, an example of ex situ conservation.
In addition a 1:50 scale model of the “Giacomo Bove” Base (WAP ITA-Ø2) has been sent to the Maritime Museum of Ushuaia with a note adressed to Carlos Pedro Vairo, director of the Maritime Antartic Museum named after Josè Maria Sobral, Museum of marine Art in Ushuaia- Argentina:
Dear director,
the model of the base which is now yours, was in the hands of the Italian Foreign Minister. Even the stones of the foundation in Italia Valley are from Argentina: the Italian Government donated that stone wall to Argentina!
So, the worldwide pressing of Prof. PhD Julius Fabbri IV3CCT-II3BOVE continue to achieve an objective: that of the designation of ASPA to a site which, for Italy (joining the Antarctic Treaty in 1981), represents an important part of its history in Antarctica.
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