McMurdo Station
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- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: United States Antarctic research center on the south tip of Ross Island
- Also known as: “MCMURDO STATION” and “Naval Air Facility McMurdo”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chapel of the Snows and McMurdo General Hospital.
Chapel of the Snows
Church
Photo: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0.
The Chapel of the Snows is a non-denominational Christian church at the United States' McMurdo Station on Ross Island, Antarctica. Initially built from scrap material in 1956, it burned down in 1978 and was rebuilt in 1989. Chapel of the Snows is situated 180 metres southwest of McMurdo Station.
McMurdo General Hospital
Hospital building
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
McMurdo General Hospital is a hospital building.
Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center
Office building
The Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center, located at McMurdo Station, was dedicated in November 1991 by the National Science Foundation. The laboratory is named in honor of geophysicist and glaciologist Albert P. Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center is situated 160 metres south of McMurdo Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fortress Rocks and Scott Base.
Fortress Rocks
Locality
Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula.
Scott Base
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research station at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim.
McMurdo Station
- Category: Antarctic research station
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“McMurdo Station” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “McMurdo-stasie”
- Arabic: “قاعدة ماك موردو”
- Arabic: “محطة ماكموردو”
- Arabic: “محطة مكموردو”
- Armenian: “Մաք Մերդո”
- Azerbaijani: “Mak-Merdo”
- Basque: “McMurdo basea”
- Belarusian: “Мак-Мёрда”
- Catalan: “Base de McMurdo”
- Catalan: “Estació de McMurdo”
- Catalan: “Estació McMurdo”
- Cebuano: “McMurdo Station”
- Chinese: “麥克默多站”
- Chinese: “麦克默多站”
- Croatian: “McMurdo Station”
- Czech: “McMurdo”
- Czech: “Polární stanice McMurdo”
- Dutch: “McMurdo Station”
- Dutch: “Station McMurdo”
- Esperanto: “Polusa stacio McMurdo”
- Estonian: “McMurdo polaarjaam”
- Finnish: “McMurdo”
- Finnish: “McMurdon asema”
- French: “Base antarctique de McMurdo”
- French: “base antarctique McMurdo”
- French: “Base antarctique McMurdo”
- French: “McMurdo Station”
- French: “McMurdo”
- French: “Station McMurdo”
- German: “Mactown”
- German: “McMurdo Station”
- German: “McMurdo-Station”
- Greek: “Βάση ΜακΜέρντο”
- Greek: “Βάση ΜακΜούρντο”
- Hebrew: “תחנת מק-מרדו”
- Hebrew: “תחנת מקמרדו”
- Hungarian: “McMurdo kutatóállomás”
- Indonesian: “Stasiun McMurdo”
- Italian: “Base McMurdo”
- Italian: “McMurdo base”
- Italian: “McMurdo Station”
- Italian: “McMurdo-Station”
- Italian: “Stazione Mac Murdo”
- Italian: “Stazione MacMurdo”
- Italian: “Stazione Mc Murdo”
- Italian: “Stazione McMurdo”
- Japanese: “マクマード基地”
- Korean: “맥머도 기지”
- Latvian: “Makmerdo”
- Latvian: “McMurdo Station”
- Lithuanian: “Makmerdo stotis”
- Low German: “McMurdo Statschoon”
- Macedonian: “Макмердо”
- Macedonian: “Мекмердо”
- Mongolian: “Макмөрдо”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “McMurdo Station”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “McMurdo-stasjonen”
- Norwegian: “McMurdo Station”
- Persian: “پایگاه مکموردو”
- Polish: “McMurdo”
- Polish: “Stacja McMurdo”
- Portuguese: “Estação McMurdo”
- Romanian: “McMurdo”
- Russian: “Мак Мердо”
- Russian: “Мак Мёрдо”
- Russian: “Мак-Мердо”
- Russian: “Мак-Мёрдо”
- Russian: “МакМердо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “McMurdo Station”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Postaja McMurdo”
- Slovak: “McMurdo Station”
- Spanish: “Base McMurdo”
- Spanish: “Mc Murdo”
- Spanish: “McMurdo Station”
- Spanish: “McMurdo”
- Spanish: “Planta de McMurdo”
- Swedish: “McMurdo Station”
- Turkish: “McMurdo Üssü”
- Ukrainian: “Мак-Мердо”
- Vietnamese: “Trạm McMurdo”
- Yue Chinese: “麥克默多站”
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