McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is a town in Antarctica and has about 824 residents. McMurdo Station is situated nearby to the locality Ballpark Area, as well as near Fortress Rocks.Places of Interest
Highlights include Chapel of the Snows and Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center.
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.
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.
McMurdo General Hospital
Hospital building
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
McMurdo General Hospital is a hospital building.
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.
Hut Point Peninsula
Locality
Photo: Mike Martoccia, 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. Hut Point Peninsula is situated 2½ km northeast of McMurdo Station.
McMurdo Station
- Type: Town with 824 residents
- Also known as: “Williams Air Operating Facility”
- Category: locality
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-77.84834° or 77° 50′ 54″ southLongitude
166.66834° or 166° 40′ 6″ eastPopulation
824Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)Inception
February 16th, 1956Operator
United States Antarctic ProgramOpen location code
2VJ85M29+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 515065315OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
13664897
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“McMurdo Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قاعدة ماك موردو”
- Belarusian: “Cтанцыя Мак-Мёрда”
- Chinese: “麦克默多站”
- French: “Base antarctique McMurdo”
- French: “Base Antarctique McMurdo”
- German: “McMurdo-Station”
- Hungarian: “McMurdo kutatóállomás”
- Italian: “Stazione McMurdo”
- Polish: “Stacja McMurdo”
- Portuguese: “Estação McMurdo”
- Russian: “Cтанция Мак-Мёрдо”
- Spanish: “Base McMurdo”
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Localities in the Area
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