Svea Research Station

Svea Station
Antarctic base
Svea field station in 2001
Location of Svea Station in Antarctica
Svea Station
Location of Svea Station in Antarctica
Coordinates: 74°35′00″S 11°13′00″W / 74.583333°S 11.216667°W / -74.583333; -11.216667Coordinates: 74°35′00″S 11°13′00″W / 74.583333°S 11.216667°W / -74.583333; -11.216667
Country  Sweden
Location in Antarctica Heimefront Range
Queen Maud Land
Administered by Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Established 1987 (1987)
Population
 • Total
  • Up to 5
Type Seasonal
Period Summer
Status Operational
Facilities
  • Two fiberglass modules
Website Swdish Polar Research Secretariat

The Svea Research Station is a Swedish research facility in Antarctica, established in 1987/1988.

It is located in the Scharffenbergbotnen valley in the Heimefrontfjella mountain range, about 400 km from the coast. Svea is a satellite station to the Wasa Research Station, and is used by small, transient research teams performing fieldwork in the area.

The station is currently the home base for two permanent monitoring projects: continual geodetic measurement using GPS technology, run by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a seismograph that records movements in the earth’s crust, run by the German Alfred Wegener Institute.

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References

This article is based on information from the Swedish Wikipedia-article about the same subject, and on information obtained from the official site of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.


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