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Participants of the GOBI 2008 expedition supported by TS2 Satellite Technologies are already in Ulan Batar. They have repeated the Polish pioneer achievement in its 30th anniversary and covered a distance of over 1600 km through the Gobi Desert and Mongolia with their land yachts. The present route started in Bugat and led along the Gobi Altai Mountains through Bayanhogor and Mandalgobi to Ulan Bator.

The BGAN Explorer 110 mobile satellite modem has been used for audio and news transmission from the desert. Both this model and other devices operating within Inmarsat BGAN coverage offer broadband Internet and telephone connections from any place on Earth. TS2 Technologie Satelitarne is the Polish distributor of the service.

Wojciech Skarżyński – one of the creators of the land yacht prototype and a participant of the pioneer expedition – is the present expedition’s patron. Anna Grebieniow is the organizer.

In September 1978 three Polish sailors covered a distance of over 800 km of difficult terrain of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia with two land yachts. In the 70s the French had similar achievements on the Sahara Desert and Russians in Iran. One of the two Polish land yachts, “Gobi 2”, came back to Poland. The other, “Gobi 1”, remained in the Palace of Technology in Ulan Batar. Unfortunately all attempts at finding it have proved futile.

The participants of the GOBI 2008 expedition repeated that pioneer achievement of the Polish in its 30th anniversary and covered a distance of over 1600 km through the Gobi Desert and Mongolia with their land yachts. One of their yachts was the original historic GOBI 2. The other was built in accordance with the predecessors’ design.

No Polish person repeated that achievement before the GOBI 2008 expedition.

The expedition’s site: GOBI 2008

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