Palmer Station
Palmer Station is a United States research station in Antarctica located on Anvers island, the only U.S. station on the continent located north of the Antarctic Circle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: USA polar research station on the Anvers Island
- Also known as: “Palmer /USA/” and “Palmer Station (United States)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Torgersen Island and Amsler Island.
Torgersen Island
Islet
Torgersen Island is a small rocky island lying just east of Litchfield Island in the entrance to Arthur Harbour, off the south-west coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
Amsler Island
Island
Amsler Island is a small island off the south coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It sits between Loudwater Cove and Arthur Harbour.
Shortcut Island
Shortcut Island is a crescent-shaped island 0.64 km long, with three prominent indentations of the north shore, lying 1.1 km SSE of Gamage Point and Palmer Station along the SW coast of Anvers Island.Palmer Station
- Categories: Antarctic research station and blue ice runway
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Palmer Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة بالمر”
- Arabic: “محطة_بالمر”
- Catalan: “Base Palmer”
- Cebuano: “Palmer Station”
- Chinese: “帕尔默站”
- Chinese: “帕默站”
- French: “aérodrome de Palmer Station”
- French: “base antarctique Palmer”
- French: “Base antarctique Palmer”
- German: “Palmer-Station”
- Hebrew: “תחנת פאלמר”
- Italian: “Base polare Palmer”
- Italian: “stazione Palmer”
- Italian: “Stazione Palmer”
- Japanese: “パーマー基地”
- Latvian: “Pālmera”
- Macedonian: “Станица „Палмер“”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Palmer Station”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palmer Station”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palmer-stasjonen”
- Norwegian: “Palmer Station”
- Norwegian: “Palmer-stasjonen (USA)”
- Norwegian: “Palmer-stasjonen”
- Persian: “پایگاه پالمر”
- Persian: “پایگاه هوایی پالمر”
- Polish: “Palmer”
- Russian: “Палмер”
- Spanish: “Base Palmer”
- Swedish: “Palmer Station”
- Ukrainian: “Палмер”
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