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...
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Dome C, also known as Dome Circe, Dome Charlie or Dome Concordia, located at Antarctica at an elevation of 3,233 metres (10,607 ft) above sea level, is...
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Inaccessibility Ridge A Dome C (also known as Dome Circe, Dome Charlie or Dome Concordia) Dome F (also known as Dome Fuji or Valkyrie Dome) East Antarctica Ranges...
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Deep drilling took place at two sites in Antarctica: Concordia Station at Dome C and Kohnen Station. In 2008 the project received the Descartes Prize for...
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summit or ice dome of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and represents an ice divide. Dome F is the site of Dome Fuji Station, a research station operated by...
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for Concordia Station support to air operations The Zucchelli Station is a seasonal (from mid-October until mid-March) research Antarctic Station on the...
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Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station Dome A Dome C Concordia Station Dome F East Antarctic Ice Sheet Gamburtsev Mountain Range Plateau Station Pole of Inaccessibility...
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astrophysics. The station also included the Skylab, a box-shaped tower slightly taller than the dome. Skylab was connected to the Dome by a tunnel. The...
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agreed to build a joint station at Dome C, named Concordia, which was inaugurated in 1997 and has operated as a year-round station since 2005, accommodating...
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centimeters in diameter. Yukimarimo at South Pole Station, Antarctica, in 2008 Yukimarimo at Concordia Station, Antarctica, in 2014 Snow roller – Large snowball...
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get supplies from the wharf to the new station, leaving ice walls 8 metres (26 ft) tall in places. Casey has a dome-covered satellite tracking antenna. The...
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of Antarctic field camps List of airports in Antarctica Concordia Station Antarctic Station Catalogue (PDF) (catalogue). Council of Managers of National...
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research station in Antarctica as part of the Indian Antarctic Programme. The name was suggested by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Work on the station was...
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Antarctic research stations List of Antarctic field camps List of airports in Antarctica Asuka Station Dome Fuji Station Mizuho Station Antarctica (1983...
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Antarctic research station commissioned by India. It is India's third Antarctic research facility and one of two active Indian research stations, alongside Maitri...
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South Pole Traverse (category McMurdo Station)
South Pole and the French–Italian Concordia Station located at Dome C at the edge of the Antarctic Plateau; Concordia has 24-hour access to geosynchronous...
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drilled an ice core at Dome C that provided, in 2004, a 740,000-year climate record. Dome C Concordia Station Vostok Station Dome F ice core Petit, Jean-Robert;...
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Williams Field (category McMurdo Station)
a U.S. military mission to build a permanent science research station at McMurdo Station in anticipation of the International Geophysical Year 1957–58...
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during the summer Antarctic field season due to its proximity to McMurdo Station. The other two runways in the area are the snow runway at Williams Field...
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Phoenix Airfield (category McMurdo Station)
2017, designed to replace the Pegasus Field's role in serving McMurdo Station. In last few years of Pegasus Field's operation, it had been plagued with...
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Dome, the bedrock geology and structure of the East Antarctic ice sheet. The first recorded sighting of the coastline now occupied by Davis Station was...
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Neumayer Station III, also known as Neumayer III after geophysicist Georg von Neumayer, is a German Antarctic research station of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut...
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research stations List of Antarctic field camps List of airports in Antarctica Lake Vostok Soviet Antarctic Expedition Vostok traverse Concordia Station Amundsen–Scott...
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stations in Antarctica and these bases are widely distributed. Unlike the drifting ice stations set up in the Arctic, the current research stations of...
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East Antarctic Ice Sheet (Dome A) begins 1.5-2.0 km from the shore. Kheis Glacier is located in 15 km east of the station, and Campbell Glacier is roughly...
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Pegasus Field (category McMurdo Station)
airstrip in Antarctica, the southernmost of three airfields serving McMurdo Station. It closed due to excessive melting in the summer season caused by warmer...
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Mawson Station, commonly called Mawson, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division...
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Novolazarevskaya Station (Russian: Станция Новолазаревская) is a Russian, formerly Soviet, Antarctic research station. The station is located at Schirmacher...
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located in Dec. 1999. The name derives from the nearby Italian Concordia research station. Malte Thoma; Klaus Grosfeld; Irina Filina; Christoph Mayer (2009-08-30)...
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NZSP) is an airport located at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station at the South Pole. The station has a runway for aircraft, 3658 m / 12000 ft long. Between...
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