Georg von Neumayer Station
Coordinates: 70 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 8 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ W.
The Georg von Neumayer Station was the Federal Republic of Germany's first wintering station in the Antarctic . It was erected in the Antarctic season 1980/1981 on the Ekström Ice Shelf in Atka Bay about seven kilometers from the edge of the ice shelf and officially opened on March 3, 1981. It was named after the German polar explorer Georg von Neumayer (1826–1909). In the choice of the location, chance played a role: the actually intended location on the Filcher-Rönne ice shelf could not be reached by ship due to the difficult ice conditions.
Scientific observatories
The Georg von Neumayer Station functioned as a scientific observatory for geophysics, meteorology and air chemistry and as a logistical base for summer expeditions. Since January 28, 1981, weather observations have been carried out at the station every three hours. One year after the opening of the Georg von Neumayer station, the geophysical observatory was put into operation. The first trace substance observatory was built in 1983 at the Georg-von-Neumayer-Station on the initiative of the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University of Heidelberg.
technical structure
The station consisted of two 50 m long, 6.70 m high and 7.70 m wide steel tubes into which the actual station made of ISO standard containers (5.81 × 2.19 × 2.28 m) was built. The containers were coupled to one another and connected by means of a continuous inner passage. The station had radio equipment, mess and kitchen, toilets, washroom and water treatment. The two power stations each had two 75 kVA diesel generators. As a CHP system via heat exchangers, these were also used to supply heat and melt water (100 l / h) for kitchens, toilets and washrooms with occasional shower needs. The station was equipped with a fire alarm and halon extinguishing system as well as portable fire extinguishers - passive fire protection was ensured by non-flammable building materials, escape routes, five emergency exits, emergency transmitters and a survival island with three bivouac boxes in the outside area.
Successor stations
As the station had sunk deeper and deeper into the ice over the years due to the development of heat and the addition of snow, it was replaced in 1993 by Neumayer Station II , a few kilometers to the southeast , which was built further inland so that there was no risk of the ice edge breaking off. Compared to the previous station, it was dimensioned considerably more comfortably, offered more storage space and better laboratory working conditions. In 2008, construction began on Neumayer Station III , which replaced Neumayer Station II on February 20, 2009.
literature
- Heinz Kohnen (Ed.): Expedition Manual. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven 1986.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Research for Sustainable Development (FONA). (No longer available online.) In: www.fona.de. Archived from the original on July 20, 2016 ; Retrieved July 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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