Hydrography as Destacamento Naval Orcadas ("Orcadas naval Detachment"). Under the Köppen climate classification system, the station is located under a tundra...
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Argentine Antarctic Program (section Research stations)
the observatory has been run by Argentina and is the location of the Orcadas Station. It claims to be the first permanent facility south of 60° Southern...
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South Orkney Islands (redirect from Orcadas Islands)
islands. The Argentine base, Orcadas, established in 1904, is sited on Laurie Island. The 11 buildings of the Argentine station house up to 45 people during...
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Union Glacier Zucchelli, Gondwana Bird King Edward Point Belgrano Vostok Orcadas Mawson Troll Mirny Neumayer Halley Concordia Qinling, Jang Bogo Davis Dumont...
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Carlini Base (redirect from Jubany Station)
Antarctic Stations (LAMBI -at Marambio station-, LABEL -at Belgrano II station-, LABES -at Esperanza station-, LABORC -at Orcadas Station- and LASAN...
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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...
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Antarctic territorial claims Ross Dependency "Destacamento Naval Orcadas" [Orcadas Naval Base] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Fundación Marambio. 1999....
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A drifting ice station is a temporary or semi-permanent facility built on an ice floe. During the Cold War the Soviet Union and the United States maintained...
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Vostok Station (Russian: ста́нция Восто́к, romanized: stántsiya Vostók, pronounced [ˈstant͡sɨjə vɐˈstok], meaning "Station East") is a Russian research...
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Finder. Retrieved October 17, 2018. "Orcadas Airport". Airports Database. Retrieved 15 March 2023. "NZ12 Palmer Station". Great Circle Mapper. Retrieved 21...
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Potter Cove 62°14′3″S 58°39′17″W Fl W 7s 10 G1387.7 111-2725 3 Destacamento Lighthouse Orcadas Station 60°44′16″S 44°44′21″W Fl W 3s G1378.5 110-20363.2...
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governments maintain permanent research stations in the Arctic. Also known as Arctic bases, polar stations or ice stations, these bases are widely distributed...
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The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under...
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Islands (after the Argentine Orcadas Base in 1903). In 1955, a new hut, Tønsberg House was built on the site of the whaling station. In 1963, it was turned...
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the Argentine permanent presence in Antarctica began with the opening of Orcadas Base on Laurie Island. Argentina was the only nation to have an Antarctic...
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The Mirny Station (Russian: Мирный, literally Peaceful) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) first Antarctic science station located in Queen Mary Land, Antarctica...
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The Pole of Inaccessibility research station (Russian: Полюс недоступности) is a defunct Soviet research station in Kemp Land, Antarctica, at the southern...
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British Antarctic Territory (section Research stations)
colony. Argentine presence in the territory dates to the foundation of the Orcadas Base, South Orkney Islands, in 1903. A number of other nations maintain...
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Neumayer Station 49 Germany Novolazarevskaya Station 7 Russia Orcadas Base 54 Argentina Palmer Station 1 United States Princess Elisabeth Base 32 Belgium...
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Nordenskjöld C. A. Larsen Scottish Antarctic Expedition Bruce Scotia Orcadas Base Nimrod Expedition Nimrod French Antarctic Expeditions Pourquoi-Pas...
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Research stations in Queen Maud Land are connected by the Dronning Maud Land Air Network Project (DROMLAN), which is a cooperative agreement for transportation...
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Machine, palgrave Galasso 2011, p. 600, vol. II. "Destacamento Naval Orcadas" [Orcadas Naval Base] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Fundación Marambio. 1999....
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Valleys or various oases. Lake Vostok, discovered beneath Russia's Vostok Station, is the largest subglacial lake globally and one of the largest lakes in...
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weather station in Antarctica was in 1904 when an observatory that both measured meteorological and geomagnetic parameters was open on Orcadas Base on...
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Nordenskjöld C. A. Larsen Scottish Antarctic Expedition Bruce Scotia Orcadas Base Nimrod Expedition Nimrod French Antarctic Expeditions Pourquoi-Pas...
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Little America (exploration base) (redirect from Little America V Station)
camps Brockton Station Byrd Station Dean Cullom Smith Ellsworth Station Framheim Hallett Station List of Antarctic expeditions McMurdo Station Operation Deep...
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served the flagship of the Australia Station between 1866 and 1870. As part of the North America and West Indies Station, she took part in naval operations...
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