Svea Station | |
Settlement Type: | Antarctic base |
Flag Size: | 110px |
Flag Border: | no |
Mapsize: | 350px |
Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of Svea Station in Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Svea Station in Antarctica |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Coordinates: | -74.5833°N -11.2167°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | |
Subdivision Type1: | Location in Antarctica |
Subdivision Name1: | Heimefront Range Queen Maud Land |
Subdivision Type3: | Administered by |
Subdivision Name3: | Swedish Polar Research Secretariat |
Established Title: | Established |
Population Blank1 Title: | Summer |
Population Blank1: | 5 |
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 |
Blank1 Name Sec2: | Facilities |
Blank1 Info Sec2: | Two fiberglass modules |
The Svea Research Station is a Swedish research facility in Antarctica, established in 1987/1988.
Svea is located in the Scharffenbergbotnen valley in the Heimefrontfjella mountain range, about 400 km from the coast. It is a satellite station to the Wasa Research Station, and is used by small, transient research teams performing fieldwork in the area.
The station is currently the home base for two permanent monitoring projects: continual geodetic measurement using GPS technology, run by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a seismograph that records movements in the Earth's crust, run by the German Alfred Wegener Institute.