Komsomolskaya Station | |
Native Name: | Комсомольская |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Settlement Type: | Antarctic research station |
Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Antarctica |
Pushpin Relief: | y |
Subdivision Type: | Region |
Subdivision Name: | Queen Mary Land |
Established Title: | Established |
Extinct Title: | Closed |
Government Type: | Administration |
Governing Body: | AARI, Soviet Union |
Elevation M: | 3,500 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Summer |
Population Blank2 Title: | Winter |
Blank Name Sec1: | Active times |
Blank Info Sec1: | All year-round |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Activities |
Blank2 Name Sec1: | Facilities |
Komsomolskaya was a Soviet Antarctic inland research station founded in 1957 in Queen Mary Land,[1] in eastern Antarctica. It was a year-round station till 1959, then used as a seasonal outpost till 1962 when it was shut down permanently. Nonetheless it is still used as a fuel storage stop for supply caravans en route from Mirny Station to Vostok Station.[2]
The station was located above sea level, and inland from Mirny Station.
Estonian writer Juhan Smuul spent a week in Komsomolskaya in 1958 and described the life and working there in his book Antarctica Ahoy!: The Ice Book, originally published in 1960 as Jäine raamat.