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Vostok Station
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Vostok Station is a research facility located deep in Antarctica's interior, in a region called Princess Elizabeth Land, where scientists conduct studies in one of Earth's most extreme environments. The station matters because it allows researchers to gather data on Antarctica's climate, geology, and atmosphere that would be impossible to collect from more accessible locations.
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- 1957-00-00
- minimum temperature record
- -89.2
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Location of Vostok in Antarctica Vostok Station (Russian: станция Восток, romanized: stantsiya Vostok, IPA: [ˈstant͡sɨjə vɐˈstok], lit. 'station east') is a Russian research station in inland Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. Founded by the Soviet Union in 1957, the station lies at the southern Pole of Cold, with the lowest reliably measured natural temperature on Earth of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K). Research includes ice core drilling and magnetometry. Vostok was named after Vostok, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition captained by Fabian von Bellingshausen. The Bellingshausen Station was named after this captain (the second ship, Mirny, captained by Mikhail Lazarev, became the namesake for Mirny Station).
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