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For other uses, see Mirny (disambiguation).
Mirny Station in 1975.
Mirny (Russian: Мирный, literally Peaceful) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) science station in Antarctica, located on the Antarctic coast of the Davis Sea in the Australian Antarctic Territory. Named after support vessel of the Bellingshausen's expedition.
The station was opened on February 13, 1956 by the 1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition. It is used as main base for the Vostok Station located 1,400 km from the coast.[1] In summer, it hosts up to 169 people in 30 buildings, in winter about 60 scientists and technicians. The average temperature at the location is –11°C, and on more than 200 days per year the wind is stronger than 15 m/s, with occasional cyclones.
Main areas of research are glaciology, seismology, meteorology, observation of polar lights, cosmic radiation, and marine biology.
References
External links
- AARI Mirny Station page
- Official wesite Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
- COMNAP Antarctic Facilities
- COMNAP Antarctic Facilities Map
Coordinates: 66°33′9.66″S 93°0′34.05″E / 66.5526833°S 93.0094583°E
Research stations of Antarctica Year-round Argentina- Belgrano II
- Esperanza
- Jubany
- Marambio
- Orcadas
- San Martín
Europe- Princess Elisabeth (Belgium)
- Concordia / Dumont d'Urville (France)
- Concordia / Mario Zucchelli (Italy)
- Neumayer III (Germany)
- Troll (Norway)
- Arctowski (Poland)
- Halley / Rothera (UK)
- Vernadsky (Ukraine)
RussiaOthers- Comandante Ferraz (Brazil)
- Great Wall / Zhongshan (PR China)
- Maitri (India)
- Dome Fuji / Showa (Japan)
- King Sejong (South Korea)
- Scott (New Zealand)
- SANAE IV (South Africa)
- Artigas (Uruguay)
Summer - Almirante Brown / Cámara / Decepción / Matienzo / Petrel (Argentina)
- St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria)
- Carvajal / González Videla / Risopatrón (Chile)
- Kunlun (China)
- Mendel (Czech Republic)
- Maldonado (Ecuador)
- Aboa (Finland)
- Kohnen (Germany)
- Zucchelli (Italy)
- Dome Fuji (Japan)
- Tor (Norway)
- Jinnah (Pakistan)
- Machu Picchu (Peru)
- Law-Racoviţă (Romania)
- Gabriel de Castilla / Juan Carlos I (Spain)
- Svea / Wasa (Sweden)
- Signy (UK)
- Byrd (United States)
- Elichiribehety (Uruguay)
Closed - Dakshin Gangotri (India)
- Asuka / Mizuho (Japan)
- Hallett / Vanda (New Zealand)
- Komsomolskaya / Leningradskaya / Molodyozhnaya / Russkaya (Soviet Union)
- Ellsworth (USA / Argentina)
- World Park Base (Greenpeace)
Categories:- Outposts of Antarctica
- 1956 establishments
- Russia and the Antarctic
- Soviet Union and the Antarctic
- Outposts of Queen Mary Land
- Queen Mary Land geography stubs
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