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Vostok Research Station is around 1,301 kilometres (808 mi) from the Geographic South Pole, at the middle of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.. Vostok is located near the southern pole of inaccessibility and the south geomagnetic pole, making it one of the optimal places to observe changes in the Earth's magnetosphere.
The walrus sucks the meat out by sealing its powerful lips to the organism and withdrawing its piston-like tongue rapidly into its mouth, creating a vacuum. The walrus palate is uniquely vaulted, enabling effective suction; researchers measured pressures in the oral cavity as low as -87.9 kPa in air, and -118.8 kPa underwater. [77]
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.
Monitoring stations in Antarctica are few and far between; prior to 1995, Vostok was the only research station on the Antarctic Plateau above the elevation of 3,000 m (with the exception of Plateau Station during the brief period that it was active in the 1960s), with no other stations for several hundred kilometers in any direction ...
An orphaned baby walrus found abandoned is getting a new lease on life after she was rescued from a remote corner of Alaska.. The female Pacific walrus, who has not yet been named, was found ...
A walrus first spotted off the coast of County Kerry in Ireland in mid-March was seen resting on a slipway on March 31 on the coast of Tenby, Wales.The walrus, affectionately referred to as Wally ...
It is here that the southernmost human habitation on Earth is located: Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station (U.S. Administered Base). Vostok Station is the most isolated research base on the continent (located at ), and it is situated over the southernmost lake in the world, Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) under the ...
A wandering walrus that’s been making headlines since he set out on an epic journey across Europe back in March was spotted napping on a boat in the Isles of Scilly on June 26.Wally recently ...