Asuka Station
The Asuka Station was a permanent Japanese Antarctic unmanned observation base. It is located on Queen Maud Land and was opened in 1985. The station closed in January 1992 and is listed as temporarily closed as of 2015. It is currently under snow.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: Antarctic base in Queen Maud Land
- Also known as: “Asuka Camp”
Asuka Station
- Category: Antarctic research station
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Asuka Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة أسوكا”
- Chinese: “飛鳥基地”
- Chinese: “飞鸟基地”
- Dutch: “Asuka Station”
- Finnish: “Asuka”
- Italian: “Base Asuka”
- Italian: “Stazione Asuka”
- Japanese: “あすか基地”
- Japanese: “あすか観測拠点”
- Latvian: “Asuka Kichi”
- Latvian: “Asuka”
- Macedonian: “Станица Асука”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Asuka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asuka-stasjonen”
- Norwegian: “Asuka”
- Polish: “Asuka”
- Portuguese: “Estação Asuka”
- Russian: “Асука (антарктическая станция)”
- Russian: “Асука”
- Spanish: “Base Asuka”
- Swedish: “Asuka”
- Ukrainian: “Асука (антарктична станція)”
- Ukrainian: “Асука”
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