[ARCTIC CIRCLE ASSEMBLY] Tara Polar Station in Reykjavík

The Tara Ocean Foundation is delighted to welcome you aboard Tara Polar Station. Tours last 30 minutes, for groups of 10 people, outdoor and indoor, to discover life on board and the scientific research conducted by the Tara Ocean Foundation.

LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE – BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET NOW TO VISIT THE SCIENTIFIC PLATFORM TARA POLAR STATION! 

The Tara Ocean Foundation is the first public interest foundation in France dedicated to the Ocean. For over 20 years, it has been striving for a revolution to preserve Life, convinced that the Ocean is essential to the equilibrium of our planet. It leads scientific expeditions, in partnership with leading international research laboratories, to study marine biodiversity and understand the impacts of climate change and pollution.

Exploring the Ocean and sharing scientific discoveries to raise collective awareness is at the heart of the foundation's mission. It raises public awareness, from the younger generation to political decision-makers.

With two scientific vessels, the schooner Tara and the drifting polar base Tara Polar Station, the foundation's expeditions gather essential data on marine biodiversity and its future.

What happens in the high Arctic impacts the entire planet, making the Arctic Ocean a true sentinel of global change. To understand this annually frozen-over ocean and its fluctuations, given the speed of change in recent decades, the deployment of long-term observational studies throughout the seasons and over future decades is needed. The new platform Tara Polar Station is built to respond to this need, designed to drift with the ice pack and withstand extreme polar conditions with up to 500 days of autonomy. It will support scientific research and observations in the central Arctic over a series of 18-month expeditions. To promote international cooperation and foster the best available research, scientists from many countries will engage in multiple successive drifts until 2045.