These stations are managed and administered by the Directorate: Antarctic and Islands of the Department of Environmental Affairs.

South Africa is one of the original signatory states of the Antarctic Treaty.

[1] In April 2017, SANAP launched an experiment on Marion Island called Probing Radio Intensity at high-Z from Marion (PRIZM), searching for signatures of the hydrogen line in the early universe.

[2] There are other global experiments looking for the same signal, but PRIZM is set apart by its location on Marion Island, which, at 2000 km from the nearest permanent inhabitants, is one of the most remote locations on Earth, allowing access to the full frequency range of the global signal without radio-frequency interference.

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