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Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station, Arctowski Station, King George Island Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys Cape Hallett, Victoria Land Holme Bay at Mawson Station, Mac. Robertson Land Schirmacher Oasis, Princess Astrid Coast. An Antarctic oasis is a large area naturally free of snow and ice in the otherwise ice-covered continent of ...
The Schirmacher Oasis (or Schirmacher Lake Plateau) [1] is a 25 km (16 mi) long and up to 3 km (1.9 mi) wide ice-free plateau with more than 100 freshwater lakes. It is situated in the Schirmacher Hills on the Princess Astrid Coast in Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica and is, on average, 100 m (330 ft) above sea level.
The Vestfold Hills are largely snow- and ice-free and are thus classified as an Antarctic oasis.They contain a great variety of lake systems with over 300 lakes and ponds [3] including what is possibly the largest concentration of meromictic (stratified) lakes in the world. [4]
Mount Herschel (3,335 m) in the Admiralty Mountains as seen from Cape Hallett. The cape was the location of a joint scientific base, Hallett Station, between the United States and New Zealand during the International Geophysical Year of 1957, and was manned permanently until 1964, when there was a major fire.
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The original site is situated by the Schirmacher Oasis and marked by a commemorative bronze plaque with the label in German language: Antarktisstation Georg Forster 70° 46’ 39’’ S 11° 51’ 03’’ E von 1976 bis 1996 The plaque is well preserved and affixed to a rock wall at the southern edge of the location. This Antarctic research ...
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Lake Untersee (German: Untersee, "Lower Lake") is the largest surface freshwater lake in the interior of the Gruber Mountains of central Queen Maud Land in East Antarctica. It is situated 90 kilometres (56 mi) to the southeast of the Schirmacher Oasis. The lake is approximately 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) long and 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) wide, with ...