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Neumayer Station III, also known as Neumayer III after geophysicist Georg von Neumayer, is a German Antarctic research station of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI). It is located on the approximately 200 metres (660 ft) thick Ekström Ice Shelf several kilometres south of Neumayer Station II . [ 3 ]
Neumayer Station III is located at , about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) away from the previous station, Neumayer II which is now abandoned and covered by a thick ice The new station ( Webcam ) is a futuristic-looking combined platform above the snow surface offering space for research, operations, and living since 2009.
The German Neumayer Station III, finished in 2009, succeeded two former stations that were buried by snow and ice. [9] It conducts geophysical, meteorological and seismological research, as well as air chemistry measurements and atmospheric ozone monitoring. [10] Germany's other station, Kohnen, was opened as part of a major ice-drilling ...
The station became increasingly deformed by snow and ice movements after 2007 and was therefore uninhabitable. On February 20, 2009, it was handed over to South Africa and replaced by the new permanent research base Neumayer Station III. At the time, the station was moving with the shelf ice at about 200 meters per year towards the open sea.
Neumayer Station III helicopter crash [33] near Neumayer Station III, Antarctica 3 survivors 2012 Fire (building) 2 Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station fire [34] Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Base, Antarctica 1 minor burn injury 2018 Work accident: 2 2018 McMurdo mishap [35] McMurdo Station, Antarctica
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Kohnen-Station is a German summer-only polar research station in the Antarctic, able to accommodate up to 28 people. [1] It is named after the geophysicist Heinz Kohnen (1938–1997), who was for a long time the head of logistics at the Alfred Wegener Institute. The station opened on January 11, 2001, in Dronning Maud Land. The station is ...
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