Signy Research Station
Signy Research Station is an Antarctic research base on Signy Island, run by the British Antarctic Survey.Photo: NOAA Photo Library, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include McLeod Glacier and Jane Peak.
McLeod Glacier
Glacier
McLeod Glacier is a glacier 1 nautical mile long, flowing in a southeasterly direction into Clowes Bay on the south side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica.
Jane Peak
Peak
Jane Peak is a conspicuous nunatak, 210 metres high, standing 0.5 nautical miles west of the northern part of Borge Bay on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.
Heywood Lake
Lake
Three Lakes Valley is a low valley containing three freshwater lakes, extending from the vicinity of Elephant Flats northward to Stygian Cove on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands.
Signy Research Station
- Type: Dwelling
- Description: antarctic base in British Antarctic Territory, United Kingdom
- Categories: Antarctic research station, locality, residential building, and building
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-60.70868° or 60° 42′ 31″ southLongitude
-45.59512° or 45° 35′ 42″ westElevation
5 metres (16 feet)Inception
March 18th, 1947Operator
United KingdomOpen location code
38FP7CR3+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 534283879OpenStreetMap feature
place=isolated_dwellingWikidata ID
Q1751827
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Signy Research Station” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “錫格蘭尼島站”
- Chinese: “锡格兰尼岛站”
- French: “Base antarctique Signy”
- German: “Signy-Station”
- Italian: “Base Signy”
- Italian: “Stazione H”
- Latvian: “Signi”
- Macedonian: “Сигни (истражувачка станица)”
- Macedonian: “Сигни”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Base H”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Signy Research Station”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Signy-stasjonen”
- Norwegian: “Signy Research Station”
- Polish: “Signy Research Station”
- Polish: “Signy”
- Portuguese: “Estação de pesquisa Signy”
- Spanish: “Base Signy”
- Swedish: “Signy Research Station”
- Ukrainian: “Сігні”
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