one of Australian's research bases on the Antarctic east coast. After more than 100 years, I brought Racoviţă back in Antarctic regions. The greatest achievement of my career was when I took from the base from the Australians. I got so emotional, that I couldn’t even sign. Planning to reopen the station in Antarctica, Negoiţă made his 13th polar expedition, spending months in Antarctica. His exploration team included two women, a biologist and a biochemist, who were the first Romanian women to visit Antarctica. In addition to reopening the station, the expedition's purpose was to obtain ground samples, sediments and micro-organisms. On January 13, 2006, the Law-Racoviță Station was re-opened, becoming Romania's first research and exploration station in Antarctica. The base was named after the first Australian researcher that explored east Antarctica, Phillip Law, and the first biologist that studied living in Antarctica, Emil Racoviță. It was founded in 1989 by the Australian Government. "It is a first time in the Romanian Antarctic research, the country that signed the 1971 Antarctic Treaty which gives us the right to use the far south of Antarctica, in peaceful purposes. It is much easier for a country with a global position like Romania to reopen an older base than building a new one," Negoiţă said at the opening of the station. The yearly travel and maintenance for Romania as a result of the station are estimated at about $20,000US. The station is in the Princess Elisabeth region near the Larsemann Hills of East Antarctica, 2 km from the Russian and Chinese stations. The Romanian expedition cooperates closely with the researchers of these countries, exchanging information. The region is rocky, not icy, and offers numerous access points to the Antarctic icecap. The Romanian research team intends to do bioprospecting, ecological and weather forecasting, measurement of seismic and geomagnetic activity and gathering of data regarding radio communication interference. The station is built from anti-corrosive and thermo-isolating materials, and it consists of a laboratory, a radio station, five bedrooms and a fuel depot. After Negoiță's death, the Law-Racoviță Station was renamed to Law-Racoviță-Negoiță Station in his honor on 9 December 2011. Future plans Of the 13 polar expeditions he participated in, eight were led and organized by Negoiţă. Negoiţă expressed desires to do research on the Larsemann hills by gathering samples from the soil and lakes and carrying out medical tests, pollution studies and climate change