Bellingshausen Station
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: Antarctic research station
- Also known as: “Bellingshausen Station (Russia)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Davies Heights and Holy Trinity Church.
Davies Heights
Peak
The Davies Heights are an elevated area, roughly elliptical in form and 1 nautical mile long, rising to 150 metres in north-central Fildes Peninsula, King George Island.
Holy Trinity Church
Church
Photo: ArJuna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holy Trinity Church is a small Russian Orthodox church on King George Island near Bellingshausen Station, a Russian research station in Antarctica. It is one of the eight churches on Antarctica and the southernmost Eastern Orthodox church in the world. Holy Trinity Church is situated 1½ km south of Bellingshausen Station.
Slalom Lake
Lake
Slalom Lake is a small lake 0.25 nautical miles north of Ardley Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island. Located near the Soviet Antarctic Expedition Bellingshausen Station, erected 1968, the lake was named "Ozero Slalomnoye".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base and Villa Las Estrellas.
President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base
Neighborhood
Photo: Mefisto29, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of Chile. It is located at Fildes Peninsula, an ice-free area, in front of Fildes Bay, at the west end of King George Island, South Shetland Islands.
Villa Las Estrellas
Photo: SnowSwan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Villa Las Estrellas is a Chilean civilian settlement on King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula. It consists of some dozen prefabs but is a vital service hub for all the bases on the island.
Bellingshausen Station
- Category: Antarctic research station
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Bellingshausen Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة بيلنجسهاوزن”
- Arabic: “محطة بيلينجسهاوزن”
- Arabic: “محطة بيلينغسهاوزن”
- Azerbaijani: “Bellinshauzen”
- Bulgarian: “Белингсхаузен (полярна станция)”
- Bulgarian: “Белингсхаузен (станция)”
- Bulgarian: “Белингсхаузен”
- Bulgarian: “Белинсхаузен (полярна станция)”
- Catalan: “Base Bellingshausen”
- Cebuano: “Bellingshausen Station”
- Chinese: “别林斯高晋站”
- Chuvash: “Беллинсгаузен (антарктика станцийĕ)”
- Chuvash: “Беллинсгаузен”
- Czech: “Bellingshausen”
- Czech: “Bellinsgauzen”
- Danish: “Bellingshausen”
- Dutch: “Station Bellingshausen”
- Finnish: “Bellingshausen”
- French: “base antarctique Bellingshausen”
- French: “Base antarctique Bellingshausen”
- German: “Bellingshausen-Station”
- Italian: “Base Bellingshausen”
- Italian: “Stazione Bellingshausen”
- Japanese: “ベリングスハウゼン基地”
- Latvian: “Belinshauzena”
- Lithuanian: “Belinshauzeno stotis”
- Macedonian: “Белингсхаузен”
- Macedonian: “Станица „Белингсхаузен“”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bellingshausen (forskningsstasjon)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bellingshausen-stasjonen”
- Norwegian: “Bellingshausen-stasjonen (Russland)”
- Norwegian: “Bellingshausen-stasjonen”
- Norwegian: “Bellingshausen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Basa Bellingshausen”
- Polish: “Bellingshausen”
- Portuguese: “Estação Bellingshausen”
- Russian: “Беллинсгаузен (антарктическая станция)”
- Russian: “Беллинсгаузен”
- Spanish: “Base bellingshausen”
- Spanish: “Base Bellingshausen”
- Swedish: “Bellingshausen”
- Turkish: “Bellingshausen İstasyonu”
- Ukrainian: “Беллінсгаузен (антарктична станція)”
- Ukrainian: “Беллінсгаузен”
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