Australia took over Wilkes after the IGY, but the American buildings were already unusable due to the build-up of ice around them.

While the IGY had taken place when the sun was at maximum output, this was followed by an examination of the sun and related geophysical phenomena at the low point in the solar cycle, the International Year of the Quiet Sun ( IQSY ).

As part of planning for the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) ( 1957 – 1958 ), the U. S. publicly undertook to place an artificial satellite with a scientific experiment into orbit around the Earth.

The International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) was an international scientific project that lasted from July 1 1957, to December 31 1958.

Halley Research Station was founded in 1956, for IGY, by an expedition from the Royal Society.

The song is sung from an optimistic viewpoint during the IGY, and features references to then-futuristic concepts, such as solar power ( first used in 1958 ), Spandex ( invented in 1959 ), space travel for entertainment, and undersea international high speed rail.

Ground-based data obtained during IGY demonstrated that the aurora occurred in an auroral oval, a permanent region of luminescence 15 to 25 degrees in latitude from the magnetic poles and 5 to 20 degrees wide.

Launched from IGY Rockoon Launch Site 2, Atlantic Ocean ; Latitude: 0. 83 ° N, Longitude: 0. 99 ° W.

The idea of the IGY stemmed from a discussion in 1950 between Chapman and scientists including James Van Allen.

The first expedition, SANAE 1, overwintered at Norway Station, taken over by South Africa from Norway after the end of the IGY.

IGY, as it was known, was a collaboration effort between forty nations to carry out earth science studies from the North Pole to the South Pole and at points in between.

On 29 July 1955, James C. Hagerty, president Dwight D. Eisenhower's press secretary, announced that the United States intended to launch " small Earth circling satellites " between 1 July 1957 and 31 December 1958 as part of their contribution to the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ).

The original signatories were the 12 countries active in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) of 1957 – 58.

* The IGY is featured prominently during 1957 – 1958 run of Pogo comic strips by Walt Kelly.

Casey is close to the now-abandoned Wilkes Station established by the United States of America to support science and exploration of Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) in 1957 / 8.

As part of the multinational collaboration for the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) 1957 – 58, Byrd commanded the U. S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I in 1955 – 56, which established permanent Antarctic bases at McMurdo Sound, the Bay of Whales, and the South Pole.

* October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union ( USSR ) successfully launches Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, as part of their participation in the IGY.

The New Zealand government provided support for the TAE and also for the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) project of 1957, five of whose members were attached to the Expedition.

Launches for the IGY experiments started in 1957, and the site was closed again in December 1958 when the IGY, which was actually two years long, ended.

* 1957: U. S. National Committee for the IGY awards the operation of WDC-A for Glaciology to the American Geographical Society

Crary named it for Joseph Kaplan, the chairman of the U. S. National Committee for the IGY, 1957 – 58.

On the 50th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year, the 2007 IHY activities will build on the success of IGY 1957 by continuing its legacy of system-sides studies of the extended heliophysical domain.

In 1958, following completion of the TAE and IGY, New Zealand made the decision to continue to operate Scott Base for scientific research, much of which depends upon the continuity of recorded data over a period of years.

Also, MacLean may have been influenced by press reports about the nuclear-powered submarine USS Skate visiting Ice Station Alpha, located on Ice Island T-3 in the Arctic, on 14 August 1958, as part of the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ).

USS Point Defiance ( LSD-31 ) became one of the first rocket-launching surface ships to support the 1958 IGY Solar Eclipse Expedition to the Danger Island region of the South Pacific.

These countries had established over 50 Antarctic stations for the IGY.

When the IGY research project ended the island was abandoned again.

The IGY encompassed eleven Earth sciences: aurora and airglow, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, gravity, ionospheric physics, longitude and latitude determinations ( precision mapping ), meteorology, oceanography, seismology and solar activity.

Other significant achievements of the IGY included the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts and the discovery of mid-ocean submarine ridges, an important confirmation of plate tectonics.

IGY triggered an 18-month year of Antarctic science.

More than 70 existing national scientific organizations then formed IGY committees, and participated in the cooperative effort.

* The IGY was featured in a cartoon by Russell Brockbank in Punch magazine in November 1956.

* Reporters came along for the IGY, including New York Times reporter Bill Becker.

*" IGY On the Ice ", produced by Barbara Bogaev, Soundprint.

More than 70 existing national scientific organizations then formed IGY committees, and participated in the cooperative effort.

Pioneer 0 ( also known as Thor-Able 1 ) was a failed United States space probe that was designed to go into orbit around the Moon, carrying a television camera, a micrometeorite detector and a magnetometer, as part of the first International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) science payload.

A 10 mW transmitter, powered by a mercury battery, on the 108 MHz band used for International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) scientific satellites, and a 5 mW, 108. 03 MHz transmitter powered by six solar cells were used as part of a radio phase-comparison angle-tracking system.

The International Geophysical Year ( IGY ), created an enormous increase in research into space weather.

I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.

Our meeting took place in May, 1961, during one of the Maestro's stop-overs in New York, before he left for Europe.

The achievements which dispelled our fears of the cosmos took place three centuries ago.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

The subject of immortality brings to mind a vivid incident which took place in 1929 at Montreux in Switzerland.

The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.

All this remembering took place the other night when I had supper with the Ziegfeld Girls at the Beverly Hills Club.

The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

A dinner and celebration in honor of this piece of engineering took place July 4, 1793, in a tavern erected by the corporation on the island.

Following the kick-off of SAAMI's shooting development program in 1954, a most interesting meeting took place in Washington, D.C..

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

Interesting evidence can be found in the results of the Chamber of Commerce elections, which took place three weeks before national elections.

but all too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took place in the early first millennium.

Horse races took place here in the Middle Ages.

Motion-picture exhibitions took place in stores in a general atmosphere like that of the penny arcade which can still be found in such urban areas as Times Square.

A taxi took him back to the bar and grill where he had left his car, and a few minutes later he found a parking place across the street from his apartment.

The Fulton County Grand Jury said Friday an investigation of Atlanta's recent primary election produced `` no evidence '' that any irregularities took place.

It was when he attempted to end the relationship that the murder took place.

The executions took place at dawn only a few hours after Havana radio announced their conviction by a revolutionary tribunal at Pinar Del Rio, where the executions took place.

The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

Apollo helped Admetus win Alcestis, the daughter of King Pelias and later convinced the Fates to let Admetus live past his time, if another took his place.