Jang Bogo Station

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The Jang Bogo Station in Terra Nova Bay in the Antarctic is a proposed South Korean research station to be built in 2012. The base will house 15 people in winter and 60 in summer in a 4000 square metre building with three wings, and will be among the larger permanent bases in Antarctica.

The base, to be named Jang Bogo after an eighth-century maritime ruler of Korea will be in the Ross Dependency and near the Italian Zucchelli Station. It is to be built by Hyundai Engineering and Construction, with material shipped from Busan to Lyttelton, New Zealand for transfer to the new Korean icebreaker, the RS Araon. There is no airport or runway at Terra Nova Bay.

Jang Bogo Station is scheduled to open 12 February 2014.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ "Korea strengthens international relations for Antarctic season". Retrieved October 1, 2013. 
  • Antarctic oil sets up cold war by Michael Field in the Sunday Star-Times (New Zealand) of 18 September 2011, page A13.
Research stations of Antarctica

Coordinates: 74°36′55″S 164°12′03″E / 74.61528°S 164.20083°E / -74.61528; 164.20083

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