Station Creek
Station Creek is a creek that flows southeast from Lake Kitezh into Ardley Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island. The name derives from the proximity of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition Bellingshausen Station, erected 1968, which is located just east of the creek.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Trinity Church and Chapel of Saint Mary Queen of Peace.
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.
Chapel of Saint Mary Queen of Peace
Church
Photo: Carlos78chile, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St. Mary Queen of Peace Chapel is a Catholic chapel located in Villa Las Estrellas, in the Chilean Antarctic Territory, which includes in the commune of Antártica, within the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, about 1580 km from Punta Arenas.
Kitezh, Lake
Lake
Lake Kitezh is a lake 0.3 nautical miles long near the center of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The largest of many lakes on the peninsula, it has been used as a reservoir by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition Bellingshausen Station and the Chilean Rodolfo Marsh Station.
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.
Station Creek
- Type: Stream
- Description: stream in Antarctica
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Station Creek” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Station Creek”
- Cebuano: “Station Creek”
- Dutch: “Station Creek”
- German: “Station Creek”
- Malayalam: “സ്റ്റേഷൻ ക്രീക്ക്”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Station Creek”
- Spanish: “Station Creek”
- Swedish: “Station Creek”
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