MINSK, 17 October (BelTA) – Participants of the 16th Belarusian Antarctic expedition have gifted a state flag of Belarus that had been unfurled in a hard-to-reach area of Antarctica to Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko. The gift was presented as the president met with scientists and participants of Belarusian Antarctic expeditions on 17 October, BelTA has learned.
The state flag of the Republic of Belarus was unfurled on 20 January 2024 by participants of the groundbreaking 16th Belarusian Antarctic expedition: Aleksei Gaidashov, Vitaly Khilko, Yegor Korzun. The flag was unfurled in the finishing point after many days of a scientific march into a hard-to-reach unexplored part of Antarctica: Mount Marriner in the Nye Mountains.
The unfurled flag measures 500x1,000mm. The flag was gift-wrapped and bears the inscription: “To President of the Republic of Belarus A.G. Lukashenko from the 16th Belarusian Antarctic expedition, 2024”.
Since 2006 as many as 16 Belarusian Antarctic expeditions have taken place. As many as 51 Belarusian scientists and specialists took part in them. As many as 22 people participated in the expeditions two times and more.
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