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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. Name.
Davis Station, pictured in 2005. Davis Station, commonly called Davis, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Davis is situated on the coast of Cooperation Sea in Princess Elizabeth Land, Ingrid Christensen Coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory, a territory ...
Antarctic Peninsula. 69°30′S65°00′W / 69.500°S 65.000°W The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. The Antarctic Peninsula is ...
Halley Research Station is a research facility in Antarctica on the Brunt Ice Shelf operated by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The base was established in 1956 to study the Earth's atmosphere . Measurements from Halley led to the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985. [ 3 ]
McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand –claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), a branch of the National Science Foundation.
Map of the Spanish governorate of Terra Australis(1539–1555), the first territorial claim over the lands near the South Pole. It was later incorporated into the Governorate of Chile. According to Argentina and Chile, the Spanish Crown had claims on Antarctica. The capitulación(governorship) granted to the conquistador Pedro Sánchez de la ...
The smaller Casey Station Skiway) is located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) east of the station, and opened on 30 December In March 2009, the Australian ABC Foreign Correspondent international affairs television program featured air operations at Casey Station as part of a report titled Antarctica - What Lies Beneath .
For the train station with the same name, see Palmer station (British Columbia). Palmer Station, January 2016. Palmer Station is a United States research station in Antarctica located on Anvers Island, the only US station located north of the Antarctic Circle. Initial construction of the station finished in 1968.