Bellingshausen Station
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Bellingshausen Station (Template:Langx) is a Russian Antarctic station at Collins Harbour, on King George Island of the South Shetland Islands. It was one of the first research stations founded by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1968. It is also the location of Trinity Church, the only permanently staffed Eastern Orthodox church in Antarctica.
The station is connected by unimproved roads to the nearby stations: Chilean Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chinese Great Wall Station, and Uruguayan Artigas Base.[1]
It is antipodal to a location in Russian Siberia, ~Script error: No such module "convert". west from Yakutsk.
History
The station is named for the 19th-century Russian explorer of the Antarctic Fabian von Bellingshausen.
In October 2018, it was the site of the first attempted murder in Antarctica.[2]
Climate
The Antarctic Peninsula and its nearby islands are considered to have the mildest living conditions in Antarctica. Bellingshausen Station's climate is strongly influenced by the surrounding ocean.[3] Under the Köppen system, it is one of the few locations in Antarctica classified as a tundra climate rather than an ice cap climate.[4] Variation in temperatures are small with the coldest month, July, averaging Script error: No such module "convert". and Script error: No such module "convert". in the warmest month.[5] With only 591.2 hours of sunshine per year, the weather is often unsettled and cloudy throughout the year with precipitation in the form of snow, rain and drizzle occurring often.[3] On average, Script error: No such module "convert". of precipitation falls per year.[3]
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Gallery
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Trinity Church at Bellingshausen
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Interior of Trinity Church
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Bellingshausen in 2012
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Bellingshausen in January 1985
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Bellingshausen at night
In popular culture
On January 21, 2014, American tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle set up an impromptu tattoo station in a scientist's guesthouse where he tattooed his signature tattoo—his autograph—on project assistant/tattoo historian Dr. Anna Felicity Friedman, making him the first person to tattoo on all seven continents.[6][7]
See also
References
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External links
- United States Antarctic Inspection Team 2006: Report of Inspections under Article VII of the Antarctic Treaty and Article 14 of the Protocol on Environmental Protection. March 21, 2007(Includes detailed description of this and some nearby stations)
- Official website Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Template:Webarchive)
- AARI Bellingshausen Station (Template:Webarchive)
- COMNAP Antarctic Facilities (Template:Webarchive)
- COMNAP Antarctic Facilities Map (Template:Webarchive)
- Bellingshausen Station Photos
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