Vernadsky Station
Coordinates: 65 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ W.
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The Vernadskiy station (formerly "Faraday station", Ukrainian Станція Академік Вернадський / Stanzija Akademik Wernadskyj ) is a Ukrainian research station in the Antarctic . From 1947 to 1996 the Wernadski Station was a British Antarctic station under the name Faraday Station. It was given its current name in honor of the Russian geologist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadski .
location
The station is located on the Argentine Islands belonging Galíndez Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago , off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula , south of the Palmer Archipelago and northeast of the Biscoe Islands . The Penola Strait separates Galindez Island from the Antarctic mainland. Galindez Island was named after the commander of the corvette Uruguay of the Argentine Navy, frigate captain Ismael F. Galíndez, who was commissioned by the Argentine government to search for Jean-Baptiste Charcot after he was missing during his 1905 expedition.
The nearest permanent Antarctic station, the American Palmer station, is 50 km away, and the nearest port, Ushuaia , Argentina's southernmost city on the Beagle Channel , is 1100 km away.
climate
The coldest measured temperature was −43.3 ° C, the warmest 11.8 ° C. About 300 days a year it is cloudy and snow falls on Galindez Island.
description
The station's nine buildings stand on ice-free rock at 7 m above sea level, 5 km from the coast. An extension made in 1961 to the eastern gable of the station increased the number of accommodation options to quarters for 15 people. Major changes to the station improved living and working conditions in 1980. The extension by a second floor created space for 24 berths, a clothes store, a heating room and a reverse osmosis system for water treatment on the ground floor. A lounge, library, dining room and kitchen were created on the upper floor. The old part of the ward now houses the laboratories and study rooms, the infirmary and the sanitary rooms. The generator house was built in 1978/79. The old generator hut is now used as a cold store for groceries and as a workshop for the carpenters. Other outbuildings are the two small anti-magnetic houses for the magnetometers , the balloon hut (now snowmobile garage) and a main warehouse.
Faraday station
Faraday Station was continuously staffed and operated from January 7, 1947 to February 6, 1996 for 49 years and 31 days by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). This is the longest uninterrupted occupation of any British station to date.
During Operation Tabarin , each station was given a letter code for identification. This tradition was maintained when new stations were founded. The original location of the British station "Base F" has been on Winter Iceland since January 1947 , where the hut of the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) previously stood in 1935/36 , which may have been destroyed by a tsunami in 1946. The hut on Winter Island was named in honor of James Wordie , a member of Ernest Henry Shackleton's "Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition" 1914–1916 and a member of the Advisory Committee of Operation Tabarin "Wordie House, Base F Argentine Islands". It was abandoned on May 30, 1954 because of the relocation of the station to Galindez Island. In the winter of 1960, the station had to be reoccupied when the staff who were intended for "Base T (Adelaide Base)" could not reach Adelaide Island and were forced to winter here. The new buildings for the station were erected in February 1954 on Galindez Island, Marina Point. The main building was named "Coronation House" after Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. In 1977 "Base F" was named after the English physicist and chemist Michael Faraday . The measurements carried out by the Faraday station and the Halley station led to the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985 .
Wordie House has been restored and named "Historic Site and Monument No. 62 "protected. The Ukrainian team at Vernadski Station is now taking care of the maintenance of Wordie House.
Vernadsky Station
As the Rothera station on Adelaide Island was expanded during the 1991/1992 season , the need arose to abandon Faraday station or move it to another country. On February 6, 1996, the station on Galindez Island was transferred to the Ukraine and renamed Vernadsky Station. The station can accommodate a maximum of 24 people as summer staff and an average of 12 winterers. Above all, seismic tremors, the thickness of the ozone layer and meteorological influencing variables are measured here; research is carried out in the upper atmosphere ( stratosphere , mesosphere and thermosphere ) and on the subject of climate change . According to a "Memorandum of Understanding" between the Ukrainian Antarctic Center UAC and the BAS, the Ukrainian scientists continue to provide the BAS with all results of the long-term measurements of the ozone, magnetism, weather and ion probe data. Highly sensitive magnetometers have been installed on the Vernadski station in order to be able to deliver the data via satellite to the international data network Intermagnet .
Trivia
The station has the southernmost bar in the world. The Faraday Bar was built by the station's British crew as an original English pub , complete with a pool table and dartboard . The furnishings were carved from hardwood that was used to repair a boat dock. Due to bad weather conditions, the repair could not be carried out during the winter. The wood was processed into the “most beautiful bar in Antarctica”. The bar is also known for the fact that you can pay for vodka with either US dollars or a bra .
Web links
- National Antarctic Scientific Center of Ukraine (English)
- Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) Ukraine Vernadsky (English)
- COMNAP Antarctic Facilities ( Memento of August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- COMNAP Antarctic Facilities Map (PDF file, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kosack, Dr. HP: Antartido Argentino , Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, 1951. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Homepage of the Vernadski station
- ^ A b website of the British Antarctic Survey Wordie House
- ^ Website of the British Antarctic Survey Faraday
- ↑ Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Ozone data from Halley and Vernadsky / Faraday
- ↑ Website of the British Antarctic Survey, Ozonloch ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Antarctic Center ( Memento of the original dated February 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ List of INTERMAGNET observatories ( memento of the original from August 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ The Most Southern Restaurant in the World
- ^ Tall Matt's Travels Vernadsky
