Antarctica

Rothera Research Station

The Rothera Research Station is a British Antarctic Survey base on the , located at Rothera Point, Adelaide Island. Rothera also serves as the capital of the British Antarctic Territory, a British Overseas Territory.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 27 residents
  • Description: British Antarctic Survey base on the Antarctic Peninsula
  • Also known as: “Rothera Station”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rothera Air Facility and Dirck Gerritsz.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an airfield serving , the British Antarctic Survey logistics centre for the and home of well-equipped biological laboratories and facilities for a wide range of research.

Dwelling
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Laboratory is a Dutch research facility on near . It is operated by the Netherlands Polar Programme of the Dutch Research Council and British Antarctic Survey and was opened on 27 January 2013.

Islet
is a small island lying east of Rothera Point, off the southeast coast of , Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1964 for John B.

Rothera Research Station

Latitude
-67.56918° or 67° 34′ 9″ south
Longitude
-68.12217° or 68° 7′ 20″ west
Population
27
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
Inception
October 25th, 1975
Operator
British Antarctic Survey
Open location code
374HCVJH+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 534283877
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­monitoring_station
Open­Street­Map feature
office=­research
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Wiki­data ID
Q1635867
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Rothera Research Station” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قاعدة روثيرا للأبحاث”
  • Arabic: “قاعدة روثيرا للابحاث”
  • Arabic: “محطة روثيرا”
  • Belarusian: “Даследчая станцыя Ратэра”
  • Belarusian: “Даследчая станцыя Ротэра”
  • Catalan: “Base Rothera”
  • Cebuano: “Rothera Research Station”
  • Chinese: “罗瑟拉研究站”
  • Chinese: “罗瑟拉站”
  • Chinese: “羅瑟拉站”
  • Czech: “Rothera”
  • Dutch: “Dirck Gerritsz Laboratorium”
  • Dutch: “Rothera Onderzoeksstation”
  • Finnish: “Rothera Research Station”
  • Finnish: “Rothera”
  • Finnish: “Rotheran tutkimusasema”
  • French: “base antarctique Rothera”
  • French: “Base antarctique Rothera”
  • German: “Rothera Research Station”
  • German: “Rothera-Station”
  • Hebrew: “תחנת מחקר רות’רה”
  • Italian: “base Rothera”
  • Italian: “Base Rothera”
  • Japanese: “ロセラ基地”
  • Japanese: “ロゼラ基地”
  • Japanese: “ロセラ研究基地”
  • Korean: “로데라 기지”
  • Korean: “로데라”
  • Latvian: “Rotera”
  • Latvian: “Rothera Research Station”
  • Latvian: “Stacija R”
  • Latvian: “Station R”
  • Lithuanian: “Rotera”
  • Lithuanian: “Roteros tyrimų stotis”
  • Macedonian: “Ротера (истражувачка станица)”
  • Macedonian: “Ротера”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rothera Research Station”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rothera”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rothera-stasjonen”
  • Norwegian: “Rothera Antarctic Research Station”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه تحقیقاتی روثرا”
  • Polish: “Rothera”
  • Pushto: “روتھرا ریسرچ اسٹیشن”
  • Russian: “Ротера (антарктическая станция)”
  • Russian: “Ротера”
  • Spanish: “Base Rothera”
  • Spanish: “Rothera”
  • Swedish: “Rothera”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи таҳқеқот русро”
  • Thai: “โรเดอรา”
  • Turkish: “Rothera”
  • Ukrainian: “Ротера”
  • Urdu: “روتھرا ریسرچ اسٹیشن”
  • Vietnamese: “Rothera”

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