Macquarie Island Station

The Macquarie Island Station, commonly called Macca, is a permanent Australian subantarctic research base on , situated in the Southern Ocean and located approximately halfway between Mainland Australia and , managed by the Australian Antarctic Division.
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  • Locality
  • …is operated by Australian Antartic Division
  • …dates from 1948
  • Description: permanent Australian subantarctic research base on Macquarie Island (Macca), Southern Ocean

Macquarie Island Station

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Latitude
-54.49891° or 54° 29′ 56″ south
Longitude
158.93786° or 158° 56′ 16″ east
Open location code
3RQWGW2Q+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1715565298
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­research_institute
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q357549

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Macquarie Island Station” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Macquarie Base”
  • French: “base de l’île Macquarie”
  • French: “Base de l’île Macquarie”
  • German: “Macquarie-Station”
  • Hebrew: “תחנת האי מקווארי”
  • Hungarian: “Macquarie-szigeti kutató állomás”
  • Latvian: “Makvoriailenda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Macquarie Island-stasjonen”
  • Polish: “Macquarie Island”
  • Portuguese: “Estação Ilha de Macquarie”
  • Russian: “Маккуори”
  • Russian: “Остров Маккуори”
  • Spanish: “Base Isla Macquarie”
  • Swedish: “Macquarie Base”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Маккуорі (антарктична станція)”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Маккуорі”

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