Kunlun
Kunlun Station is the southernmost of five Chinese research stations in Antarctica. When it is occupied during the summer, it is the second-southernmost research base in Antarctica, behind only the American Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station at the geographical South Pole.- Type: Hamlet with 26 residents
- Description: Chinese research station in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Kunlun Station”
Kunlun
- Categories: Antarctic research station, research, office, and locality
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-80.41738° or 80° 25′ 3″ south
Longitude
77.11737° or 77° 7′ 3″ east
Population
26
Elevation
4,018 metres (13,182 feet)
Operator
中国极地研究所
Open location code
2JFVH4M8+2W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
office=research
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kunlun” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محطة كونلون”
- Azerbaijani: “Kunlun”
- Chinese: “Kūnlúnzhàn”
- Chinese: “中国南极昆仑站”
- Chinese: “中國南極崑崙站”
- Chinese: “昆仑站”
- German: “Kunlun-Station”
- Italian: “Base Kunlun”
- Japanese: “崑崙基地”
- Korean: “쿤룬 기지”
- Korean: “쿤룬”
- Latvian: “Kunlun”
- Latvian: “Kūnlún”
- Latvian: “Kunluna”
- Latvian: “Kuņluņa”
- Latvian: “昆仑站”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kunlun-stasjonen”
- Polish: “Kunlun”
- Portuguese: “Estação Antártica Kunlun”
- Russian: “Куньлунь”
- Spanish: “Base Kunlun”
- Swedish: “Kunlun Station”
- Ukrainian: “Куньлунь (антарктична станція)”
- Ukrainian: “Куньлунь”
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