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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • Nordenskjöld C. A. Larsen Scottish Antarctic Expedition Bruce Scotia Orcadas Base Nimrod Expedition Nimrod French Antarctic Expeditions Pourquoi-Pas...
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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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    Nordenskjöld C. A. Larsen Scottish Antarctic Expedition Bruce Scotia Orcadas Base Nimrod Expedition Nimrod French Antarctic Expeditions Pourquoi-Pas...
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