Wasa Station
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: Swedish research station in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Wasa Research Station” and “Wasa Station (Sweden)”
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.
Wasa Station
- Category: Antarctic research station
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Wasa Station” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wasa Station”
- Chinese: “瓦萨站”
- Chinese: “瓦薩站”
- Dutch: “Wasa”
- Finnish: “Wasa”
- French: “Base antarctique Wasa”
- German: “Wasa-Station”
- Hausa: “Tashar Bincike ta Wasa”
- Italian: “Base Wasa”
- Italian: “Stazione di ricerca Wasa”
- Italian: “Stazione Wasa”
- Latvian: “Vāsa”
- Latvian: “Wasa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wasa”
- Norwegian: “Wasa (Sverige)”
- Norwegian: “Wasa”
- Polish: “Wasa”
- Russian: “Васа”
- Spanish: “Base antartica Wasa”
- Spanish: “Base antártica Wasa”
- Spanish: “Base Wasa”
- Swedish: “Wasa”
- Ukrainian: “Васа (антарктична станція)”
- Ukrainian: “Васа”
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