Mirny station

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Mirny Station (Antarctica)
Vostok
Vostok
Komsomolskaya
Komsomolskaya
Mirny
Mirny
Russian main station Mirny
domestic station Vostok
Komsomolskaya (abandoned)

The 1956 opened Russian Mirny Station ( Russian Мирный is for "peaceful") a research station at the Davis Sea adjacent coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie-country . It is located on Mabus Point , serves as the main base for the 1,400 km inland Vostok station and in summer accommodates up to 169 people in 30 buildings. During the hibernation period there are around 60 researchers and technicians. The average temperature is –11 ° C, the wind blows more than 15 m / s on more than 200 days a year and can often grow into cyclones .

The main research areas here are glaciology , seismology , meteorology , observation of polar lights , cosmic rays and marine biology .

The closest station is Davis Station in Australia, 678 km away . From 1901 to 1903, the first German south polar expedition, led by Erich von Drygalski , sailed the waters of the Davissee . Drygalski Island , just under 90 kilometers away from Mirny Station, is named after him. The smaller Haswell Island is also located about three kilometers north of the station .

An annual trek from Mirny supplies the inland station Vostok with food and 100 to 130 tons of winter diesel fuel via an unpaved snow slope. Until it was closed in the 1990s, the Komsomolskaya station on the way (760 km south of Mirny) was also supplied in this way.

On the night of August 2 to 3, 1960, a fire broke out at the station, in which eight polar explorers died, including Hans-Christian Popp (1928–1960) from the Potsdam Main Meteorological Observatory. Subsequently, a cemetery was set up on Buromski Island, two kilometers off the coast, where by 2010 more than 60 injured residents of the station had been buried. As a Historic Site and Monument HSM-9 , it is protected by the Antarctic Treaty .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Sanders: Antarctica: the trek of the daring. In: GEO-Magazin 01/2004
  2. ↑ Ines Kappler: The Meteorological Service of the GDR. The years 1953–1960 (PDF; 10.3 MB), German Weather Service Potsdam
  3. ^ Günter Skeib : Prisoners of the island . In: Gert Lange (Ed.): Probation in Antarctica. Antarctic research in the GDR , VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1982, pp. 10–15
  4. ↑ Михаил Орлов: "Работа в Антарктиде по-прежнему сопряжена с опасностью" . In: Газета.Ру , December 7, 2011 (Russian), accessed October 6, 2013
  5. ↑ HSM 9: Buromsky Island Cemetery in the Antarctic Protected Areas Database on the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat website (English, Spanish, French, Russian), accessed November 16, 2019

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