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The Pole of Inaccessibility research station (Russian: Полюс недоступности, Polyus nedostupnosti) is a defunct Soviet research station in Kemp Land, Antarctica, at the southern pole of inaccessibility (the point in Antarctica furthest from any ocean) as defined in 1958 when the station was established. Later definitions give ...
The United States maintains the southernmost base, Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, and the largest base and research station in Antarctica, McMurdo Station. The second-southernmost base is the Chinese Kunlun Station at 80°25′2″S during the summer season, and the Russian Vostok Station at 78°27′50″S during the winter season.
In 1944, as part of Operation Tabarin, the British military established a base (Base B) in the remains of Hektor Station. This base, which conducted meteorological and geographical research, was staffed until 1969, when it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption. [2] [3] [4] Today, the site is in a state of disrepair. However, the station's tank ...
The Russkaya Station (Russian: Русская) is a former Soviet and Russian Antarctic research station located on the Ruppert Coast, in Marie Byrd Land in Western Antarctica. The station was proposed in 1973 and approved in 1978. Construction began the next year and it was opened on March 9, 1980 and officially abandoned in 1990.
Little America was a series of Antarctic exploration bases from 1929 to 1958, located on the Ross Ice Shelf, south of the Bay of Whales.The were built on ice that is moving very slowly, the relative location on the ice sheet, has moved and eventually breaks off into an iceberg.
The current base, Halley VI, officially opened in February 2013 after a test winter. [5] It is the world's first fully relocatable terrestrial research station. [6] On 30 July 2014, the station lost its electrical and heating supply during record low temperatures (as low as -55 °C), due to coolant leakage. Plans were made to evacuate some of ...
Antarctica New Zealand has come up with a new, smaller proposal for the redevelopment of the country's base in Antarctica, the government institute said on Thursday, after a previous plan was ...
The base was in continuous use until January 29, 1969, when it was closed but mothballed for future use, [3] and was the most remote and coldest of any United States stations on the continent. [4] It was also the site for the world's coldest measured average temperature for a month at that time, recorded in July 1968, at −99.8 °F (−73.2 °C).