The Instituto Antártico Argentino is the Argentine federal agency in charge of orientating, controlling, addressing and performing scientific and technical research and studies in the Antarctic. It is
José M. Sobral with Nordenskjöld in the Antarctica, c. 1903
Gral. Hernán Pujato, promoter and first director of the Argentine Antarctic Institute
DHC-2 Beaver registration IAA-101 in 1957 in Belgrano I station. It was the first airplane of the IAA.
Almirante Irízar icebreaker, pictured in 2005
Matienzo Base is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station named after Lieutenant Benjamín Matienzo, an Argentine aviation pioneer. It is located in Larsen Nunatak, one of the Foca N
Matienzo from the air, austral autumn of 2009