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Bellingshausen Station
Russian Antarctic base on King George Island
Russian Antarctic base on King George Island
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Bellingshausen Station |
| settlement_type | Antarctic base |
| image_skyline | Bellingshausen Base IMG 6019.JPG |
| imagesize | 300 |
| image_caption | Bellingshausen base in winter |
| flag_size | 110px |
| flag_border | no |
| mapsize | 350px |
| pushpin_map | Antarctica |
| pushpin_map_alt | Location of Bellingshausen Station in Antarctica |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location of Bellingshausen Station in Antarctica |
| pushpin_mapsize | 300 |
| pushpin_relief | yes |
| coordinates | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Russia |
| subdivision_type1 | Location in Antarctica |
| subdivision_name1 | Collins Harbour |
| King George Island | |
| South Shetland Islands | |
| subdivision_type3 | Administered by |
| subdivision_name3 | Russian Antarctic Expedition |
| established_title | Established |
| established_date | |
| named_for | Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen |
| area_urban_footnotes | |
| area_rural_footnotes | |
| area_metro_footnotes | |
| area_magnitude | |
| elevation_footnotes | |
| elevation_m | 16 |
| population_as_of | 2017 |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_blank1_title | Summer |
| population_blank1 | 40 |
| population_blank2_title | Winter |
| population_blank2 | 20 |
| blank_name_sec1 | Type |
| blank_info_sec1 | All year-round |
| blank1_name_sec1 | Period |
| blank1_info_sec1 | Annual |
| blank2_name_sec1 | Status |
| blank2_info_sec1 | Operational |
| blank_name_sec2 | Activities |
| blank_info_sec2 | |
| code1_name | UN/LOCODE |
| code1_info | AQ BHN |
| website | Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute |
King George Island South Shetland Islands
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Bellingshausen Station () 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 base is adjacent to the Chilean town of Villa las Estrellas.
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.
It is antipodal to a location in Russian Siberia, ~400 km 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.
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. Under the Köppen system, it is one of the few locations in Antarctica classified as a tundra climate rather than an ice cap climate. Variation in temperatures are small with the coldest month, July, averaging -6.5 C and 1.5 C in the warmest month, January. 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. On average, 729 mm of precipitation falls per year.
Gallery
2005-02-25 Trinity Church at Bellingshaussen.jpg|Trinity Church at Bellingshausen 2005-02-25 Inside Trinity Church.jpg|Interior of Trinity Church Russian Antarctic Base Bellinghausen.JPG|Bellingshausen in 2012 Antarctic Bellinghausen.jpg|Bellingshausen in January 1985 Bellingshausen-at-night-4755.JPG|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.
References
References
- (August 2017). "Antarctic Station Catalogue". [[Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs]].
- USAIT 2006
- (30 October 2018). "Antarctica scientist stabbed colleague for spoiling book endings".
- "Station Bellingshausen". Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.
- {{Cite Köppen-Geiger cc 2007
- (4 May 2004). "Bellingshausen Station (89050)". Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.
- (10 February 2014). "Lyle Tuttle Antarctica 2014 Press Release".
- (23 January 2014). "A History-Assisting Historian? Helping Lyle Tuttle Tattoo on 7 Continents!".
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