Macquarie Island Station
The Macquarie Island Station, commonly called Macca, is a permanent Australian subantarctic research base on Macquarie Island, situated in the Southern Ocean and located approximately halfway between Mainland Australia and Antarctica, managed by the Australian Antarctic Division.
- Type: Monitoring station
- Description: permanent Australian subantarctic research base on Macquarie Island (Macca), Southern Ocean
- Also known as: “Остров Маккуори”
Macquarie Island Station
- Category: research station
- Location: Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-54.49907° or 54° 29′ 57″ south
Longitude
158.93629° or 158° 56′ 11″ east
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Operator
ICAO airport code
YMMQ
Open location code
3RQWGW2P+9G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=monitoring_station
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Macquarie Island Station” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Macquarie Base”
- French: “base de l’île Macquarie”
- French: “Base de l’île Macquarie”
- German: “Macquarie-Station”
- Hebrew: “תחנת האי מקווארי”
- Hungarian: “Macquarie-szigeti kutató állomás”
- Latvian: “Makvoriailenda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Macquarie Island-stasjonen”
- Polish: “Macquarie Island”
- Portuguese: “Estação Ilha de Macquarie”
- Russian: “Маккуори”
- Spanish: “Base Isla Macquarie”
- Swedish: “Macquarie Base”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Маккуорі (антарктична станція)”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Маккуорі”
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