| Kohnen Station | |
| Settlement Type: | Antarctic base |
| Flag Size: | 110px |
| Flag Border: | no |
| Mapsize: | 270px |
| Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of Kohnen Station in Antarctica |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Kohnen Station in Antarctica |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 270 |
| Pushpin Relief: | yes |
| Coordinates: | -75.0019°N 0.0668°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  |
| Subdivision Type1: | Location in Antarctica |
| Subdivision Name1: | Dronning Maud Land Antarctica |
| Subdivision Type3: | Administered by |
| Subdivision Name3: | Alfred Wegener Institute |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Elevation M: | 2,892 |
| Population As Of: | 2017 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Summer |
| Population Blank1: | 6 |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Winter |
| Population Blank2: | 0 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Type |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Seasonal |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Period |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | Summer |
| Blank2 Name Sec1: | Status |
| Blank2 Info Sec1: | Operational |
| Blank Name Sec2: | Activities |
| Blank Info Sec2: | Core drilling |
| Code1 Name: | UN/LOCODE |
| Code1 Info: | AQ KHN |
| Website: | Kohnen Station AWI |
| Kohnen Skiway | |
| Icao: | AT12 |
| Type: | Private |
| Location: | Kohnen Station |
| Elevation-F: | 9566 |
| Elevation-M: | 2916 |
| Coordinates: | -75.0012°N 0.0688°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 270 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airfield in Antarctica |
| R1-Number: | 17/35 |
| R1-Length-F: | 2,957 |
| R1-Length-M: | 901 |
| R1-Surface: | Ice |
| Footnotes: | [2] |
Kohnen-Station is a German summer-only polar research station in the Antarctic, able to accommodate up to 28 people.[1] It is named after the geophysicist Heinz Kohnen (1938–1997), who was for a long time the head of logistics at the Alfred Wegener Institute.
The station opened on January 11, 2001, in Dronning Maud Land. The station is located at 75°00'S, 00°04'E, and 2892 m above sea level. It is located 757 km southeast of Neumayer Station III, which lies on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf and provides logistics and administration for Kohnen-Station. Like the United Kingdom's Halley V station, the base is built on steel legs allowing the station to be jacked up as the height of the snow surface increases.
The station contains a radio room, a mess room, a kitchen, bathrooms, two bedrooms, a snow melter, a store, a workshop, and a power plant (100 kW). It is supplied by a convoy of 6 towing vehicles, which carry up to 20 tons each, and 17 sledges. The base is resupplied twice each year, with up to 6 sledge trains at a time. This traverse takes 9–14 days.[3]
Kohnen station is the logistic base for the ice coring project in Dronning Maud Land, the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA). A core was also drilled at Kohnen station.[4]
In 2019, researchers found interstellar iron in Antarctica in snow from the Kohnen Station which they relate to the Local Interstellar Cloud[5]