Vernadsky Research Base

Galindez Island

antarctica Antarctica






Satellite and aerial maps of Faraday Station F with nearby locations


Nearby locationsKmBearing
Palmer Station , Anvers Island 53.4010NZ12
Rothera Station R , Adelaide Island 310.3211EGAR
Adelaide Station T , Adelaide Island 347.4214
Yankee Harbour , South Shetland Islands 373.0037
Vicecomodoro Marambio , Seymour Island 378.7076SAWB
Ash Point , South Shetland Islands 382.2038



  Faraday Station F


1954 to present

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


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 1996, it was handed over to Ukraine administration and the base was renamed after a prominent Ukrainian mineralogist.



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