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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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Vinony's link graph records 792 inbound references to Vostok Station, and connects out to Antarctica, South Pole and humidity.
The entry is geolocated on the map in AQ, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under 1957 establishments in Antarctica, Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica and Outposts of Antarctica.
Vinony links it to 54 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Antarctic research station
- Named after
- Vostok
- Continent
- Antarctica
- Elevation
- 3488
- Body of water
- Lake Vostok
- Location
- Princess Elizabeth Land
- Image
- Vostok Station 2024.png
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- Commons category
- Vostok Station
- inception
- 1957-00-00
- minimum temperature record
- -89.2
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Encyclopedic overview
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).
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vostok Station” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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