Great Wall Station
The Great Wall Station is the first Chinese research station in Antarctica and opened on 20 February 1985. It lies on the Fildes Peninsula on King George Island, 960 kilometres from Cape Horn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Geologists Island and Clement Hill.
Geologists Island
Islet
Geologists Island is an island, 0.5 kilometres long, lying south of Ardley Island in the entrance of Hydrographers Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
Clement Hill
Peak
Clement Hill is a hill rising to 135 m, the highest elevation in southern Fildes Peninsula, 1 nautical mile northwest of Halfthree Point, King George Island, South Shetland Islands.
Diomedea Island
Islet
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Diomedea Island is a small island lying in Ardley Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The Soviet Antarctic Expedition called the feature "Ostrov Al'batros" or "Albatross Island" in 1968, but the English form duplicates a name in the Bay of Isles.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villa Las Estrellas.
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.
Great Wall Station
- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: research station
- Category: Antarctic research station
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Great Wall Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة السور العظيم”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük sədd (antarktik stansiya)”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük sədd”
- Cebuano: “Great Wall Station”
- Chinese: “中国南极长城站”
- Chinese: “中國南極長城站”
- Chinese: “長城站”
- Chinese: “长城站”
- Dutch: “Antarctic Great Wall Station”
- French: “base antarctique Grande Muraille”
- French: “Base antarctique Grande Muraille”
- German: “Grosse-Mauer-Station”
- German: “Große-Mauer-Station”
- Italian: “Base grande muraglia”
- Italian: “Base Grande Muraglia”
- Italian: “Base great wall”
- Italian: “Base Great Wall”
- Italian: “Stazione grande muraglia”
- Italian: “Stazione Grande Muraglia”
- Italian: “Stazione great wall”
- Italian: “Stazione Great Wall”
- Japanese: “長城基地”
- Korean: “장성 기지”
- Latvian: “Čančena”
- Macedonian: “Станица „Антарктички Голем Ѕид“”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Wall (forskningsstasjon)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Wall”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Great Wall-stasjonen”
- Norwegian: “Great Wall forskningsstasjon”
- Polish: “Wielki Mur”
- Portuguese: “Estação Antártica da Grande Muralha”
- Russian: “Великая стена (антарктическая станция)”
- Russian: “Чанчэн (антарктическая станция)”
- Russian: “Чанчэн”
- Spanish: “Base Gran Muralla”
- Swedish: “Great Wall”
- Tamil: “அண்டார்க்டிக்கா பெருஞ்சுவர் ஆய்வுக்கூடம்”
- Turkish: “Çin Seddi İstasyonu”
- Ukrainian: “Велика стіна (антарктична станція)”
- Ukrainian: “Велика стіна”
- Ukrainian: “Великий мур”
- Vietnamese: “Trạm Trường Thành”
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