Henryk Arctowski Station
Henryk Arctowski Station is a hamlet in Argentine Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego Province and has about 16 residents. Henryk Arctowski Station is situated nearby to the locality Wróbel Valley, as well as near Giacomo Bove Station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arctowski Lighthouse and Jardine Peak.
Jardine Peak
Peak
Jardine Peak is a peak, 285 metres high, standing 1 nautical mile southwest of Point Thomas on the west side of Admiralty Bay, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands.
Ecology Glacier
Glacier
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ecology Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast into Admiralty Bay, King George Island, north of Llano Point. It was named by the Polish Antarctic Expedition, 1980, after the Institute of Ecology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the sponsor of nearby Arctowski Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station.
Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station
Hamlet
The Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station is a permanent Antarctic research station named after the Brazilian Navy Commander Luís Antônio de Carvalho Ferraz, who visited Antarctica many times with the British exploration team and managed to convince his government to create a self-guided Brazilian Antarctic Program. Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station is situated 9 km northeast of Henryk Arctowski Station.
Henryk Arctowski Station
- Type: Hamlet with 16 residents
- Also known as: “Arctowski”, “Arctowski Station”, “Henryk Arctowski”, “Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station”, and “Stacja Antarktyczna Polskiej Akademii Nauk im. Henryka Arctowskiego”
- Categories: research, office, and locality
- Location: Argentine Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-62.15901° or 62° 9′ 33″ southLongitude
-58.47194° or 58° 28′ 19″ westPopulation
16Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)Inception
February 26th, 1977Operator
Polish Academy of ScienceOpen location code
3893RGRH+96OpenStreetMap ID
node 248461592OpenStreetMap feature
office=researchOpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
13353907
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Henryk Arctowski Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة هنريك أركتوسكي”
- Finnish: “Henryk Arctowskin tutkimusasema”
- French: “Base antarctique Arctowski”
- French: “Base Antarctique Arctowski”
- German: “Arctowski-Station”
- Italian: “Stazione antartica polacca Henryk Arctowski”
- Latvian: “Arctovski”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Henryk Arctowski-Stasjonen”
- Polish: “Polska Stacja Antarktyczna im. Henryka Arctowskiego”
- Polish: “Polska Stacja Antarktyczna imienia Henryka Arctowskiego”
- Polish: “Stacja Antarktyczna Arctowskiego”
- Polish: “Stacja Badawcza Antarktyczna Arctowskiego”
- Portuguese: “Estação Antártica Polaca Henryk Arctowski”
- Russian: “Арцтовский”
- Spanish: “Base Henryk Arctowski”
- Ukrainian: “Арцтовський”
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