Bellingshausen Station
Bellingshausen Station | |
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Bellingshausen base in winter | |
Location of Bellingshausen Station in Antarctica | |
| Coordinates: 62°11′55″S 58°57′38″W / 62.198591°S 58.960547°W | |
| Country | Russia |
| Location in Antarctica | Collins Harbour King George Island South Shetland Islands |
| Administered by | Russian Antarctic Expedition |
| Established | 22 February 1968 |
| Named after | Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen |
| Elevation | 16 m (52 ft) |
| Population (2017) | |
| • Summer | 40 |
| • Winter | 20 |
| UN/LOCODE | AQ BHN |
| Type | All year-round |
| Period | Annual |
| Status | Operational |
| Activities | List
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| Website | Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute |
Bellingshausen Station (Russian: станция Беллинсгаузен) is a Russian Antarctic station at Collins Harbour, on King George Island of the South Shetland Islands. It was one of the first research stations founded by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1968. It is also the location of Trinity Church, the only permanently staffed Eastern Orthodox church in Antarctica.
The station is connected by unimproved roads to the nearby stations: Chilean Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chinese Great Wall Station, and Uruguayan Artigas Base.
It is antipodal to a location in Russian Siberia, ~400 kilometres (250 mi) west from Yakutsk.