Vernadsky Research Base

Galindez Island , Antarctic Peninsula

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Satellite and aerial maps of Faraday Station F with nearby locations

Столярна майстерня, Vernadsky Research Base

Nearby locationsKmBearing
Palmer Station , Antarctic Peninsula 53.4010NZ12
Videla Station , Antarctic Peninsula 80.8055
Decepcion , South Shetland Islands 305.6036
Gabriel de Castilla , South Shetland Islands 306.2036AQGDC
Deception Station B , South Shetland Islands 309.4037
Rothera Station R , Adelaide Island 310.3211EGAR



  Faraday Station F


1954 to present

65° 14' 45'' S     64° 15' 28'' W
Kiev Peninsula, Galindez Island, Antarctic Peninsula
ICAO: IATA: Local: AQVKY
Elevation: 22 feet


Opened in May 1954, after the original British geophysical observatory at Station F (built in 1947 on nearby Winter Island) had to be abandoned. In 1995, it was handed over to Ukraine administration and the base was renamed after a prominent Ukrainian mineralogist.



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