Aboa
Aboa is a seasonal Finnish research station in Antarctica, located in Queen Maud Land, about 130 kilometres from the coast, on a nunatak called Basen in the Kraul Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: Finnish research station in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Aboa (Finland)” and “Aboa Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wasa Research Station.
Wasa Research Station
Dwelling
The Wasa Research Station is a Swedish research facility in Antarctica, established in 1988/1989. It is situated next to the Finnish Aboa Research Station on the Basen nunatak in the Kraul Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Wasa Research Station is situated 790 metres north of Aboa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nordenskiöld Base.
Nordenskiöld Base
Neighborhood
The Nordenskiöld Base is a name used for the facilities shared by the Antarctic stations Wasa and Aboa. The name is in honors Otto Nordenskjöld, a Finnish-Swedish polar explorer who led the first Swedish Antarctic Expedition.
Aboa
- Category: Antarctic research station
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Aboa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة أبوا”
- Azerbaijani: “Aboa”
- Cebuano: “Aboa Station”
- Cebuano: “Aboa”
- Chinese: “奥布站”
- Chinese: “奧布站”
- Danish: “Aboa”
- Dutch: “Aboa”
- Finnish: “Aboa”
- French: “Aboa”
- French: “base antarctique Aboa”
- French: “Base antarctique Aboa”
- Italian: “Base Aboa”
- Italian: “Finnish Antarctic research station Aboa”
- Italian: “Stazione Aboa”
- Italian: “Stazione di ricerca antartica finlandese Aboa”
- Italian: “Suomen tutkimusasema Aboa”
- Japanese: “アボア基地”
- Latvian: “Aboa”
- Macedonian: “Абоа (база на Антартикот)”
- Macedonian: “Абоа”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aboa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aboa forskingsstasjon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aboa i Antarktis”
- Norwegian: “Aboa-stasjonen (Finland)”
- Norwegian: “Aboa-stasjonen”
- Norwegian: “Aboa”
- Polish: “Aboa”
- Portuguese: “Aboa”
- Russian: “Абоа”
- Spanish: “Base Aboa”
- Swedish: “Aboa”
- Turkish: “Aboa Araştırma İstasyonu”
- Ukrainian: “Абоа (антарктична станція)”
- Ukrainian: “Абоа”
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