Tara Polar Station
IMO 1090064 · MMSI 228471700
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- 🇫🇷 France · compare
- Year built
- 2025
- Builder
- Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie
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Indexed from Wikidata (Q123258360).
Vessel history
Tara Polar Station is a French drifting scientific base aimed for Arctic Ocean expeditions and operated by the Tara Oceans Foundation and its collaborators. The station is financed and designed by the Tara Foundation and was built in Cherbourg , France, from May 2023 to April 2025, after 5 years of design. It was christened in Lorient , France, on 24 April 2025.[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaraPolarStation#citenote-AWI-5) The project has its origins in the Arctic exp…
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PSC detention history
No detentions in the last 2 years.
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