Vostok, Antarctica
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Vostok Station Ста́нция Восто́к |
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Lake Vostok composite image (NASA)
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 Vostok Station
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| Coordinates: 78°27′50″S 106°50′15″E / 78.46389°S 106.83750°ECoordinates: 78°27′50″S 106°50′15″E / 78.46389°S 106.83750°E | |
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 Russia
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| • Type | Polar Research Organisation |
| • Body | Russian Antarctic Programme |
| Elevation | 3,488 m (11,444 ft) |
| Time zone | AQ (UTC+06:00) |
Vostok Station (Russian: , translit. Stántsiya Vostók, pronounced [ˈstant͡sɨjə vɐˈstok], literally "Station East") is a Russian (formerly Soviet) research station in inland Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. Founded by the Soviet Union in 1957, the station lies at the southern Pole of Cold, with the lowest reliably measured natural temperature on Earth of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K). Research includes ice core drilling and magnetometry. Vostok (Russian for "east") was named after Vostok, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition captained by Fabian von Bellingshausen (the second ship Mirny captained by Mikhail Lazarev became the namesake for Mirny Station).
Vostok Research Station is about 1,300 km (≈800 mi) from the Geographic South Pole, at the center of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Vostok is located near the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility and the South Geomagnetic Pole, making it one of the optimal places to observe changes in the Earth's magnetosphere. Other studies include actinometry, geophysics, medicine and climatology.
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