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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 Stationat 80°25′2″S during the summer season, and the Russian Vostok Stationat 78°27′50″S during the winter season. Name.
German Antarctic Receiving Station or GARS O'Higgins is a German polar research station in Antarctica. [ 1 ] It is located at Cape Legoupil on the Antarctic Peninsula on the six-hectare Isabel Riquelme islet, also known as Schmidt Peninsula. The islet is 300 m wide and 200 m long, 50 m from the mainland, with a land connection at low tide.
2,957. 901. Ice. [2] 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.
Station location on a map. A.B. Dobrowolski Polar Station (Polish: Stacja im. A.B. Dobrowolskiego) is an occasionally active Polish polar research station in Antarctica. It is located at the edge of the Algae Lake, Bunger Hills region in the Wilkes Land and was originally constructed by the Soviet Union. It is one of the two Polish stations in ...
The station is named for Henryk Arctowski (1871–1958), who as meteorologist had accompanied the Belgian explorer Baron Adrien de Gerlache on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition "Belgica", 1897–1899. This was the first expedition to overwinter in Antarctica. He proposed the original notion of a wind chill factor, arguing that wind could be as ...
Concordia Research Station, which opened in 2005, is a French–Italian research facility that was built 3,233 m (10,607 ft) above sea level at a location called Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica. It is located 1,100 km (680 mi) inland from the French research station at Dumont D'Urville, 1,100 km (680 mi) inland from Australia's ...
Svea Research Station. The Svea Research Station is a Swedish research facility in Antarctica, established in 1987/1988. Svea is located in the Scharffenbergbotnen valley in the Heimefrontfjella mountain range, about 400 km from the coast. It is a satellite station to the Wasa Research Station, and is used by small, transient research teams ...
The station was officially opened on 27 January 2013. [ 2 ] The facility is named after Dutch explorer Dirck Gerritsz Pomp , who allegedly holds a claim as the first to sight islands off the Antarctic continent during an expedition from Europe to East Asia in 1599.