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Antarctic Great Wall Station
The Antarctic Great Wall Station, also called the Great Wall Station, is a perennial station for science research in the Antarctic region. It was built in 1985 and was the very first science research station in the Antarctic area. It is located in the south of South Shetland Islands. The distance between north and south is 2 kilometers, and 1.26 kilometers between the East and the West. The floor area is 2.52 square kilometers. It was expanded four times and now it has 25 different buildings which have a capacity for 60 people in summer and almost 20 people to do research in winter.
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Chinese Antarctic Great Wall Station

The Station is like a small science city, where scientist can carry out not only meteorology, solid tide, satellite Doppler, seismic, geomagnetic absolute value and upper-atmospheric physics observations, but also integrated research, experiment, analysis and data processing in the labs of biology, radio transmission, geology, geomagnetics, as well as in the microcomputer room. The members of the Chinese Antarctic Expedition have been making all the year round in the Chinese Great Wall Station routine observations on such subjects as meteorology, ionosphere, upper-atmospheric physics, geomagnetism and seismology, etc. During the austral summer period every year, apart from routine observations, in-situ scientific research is also carried out on geology, glaciology, biology, environmental science, human medicine and marine science, etc.

China’s Great Wall Station, Antarctica

The most anticipated event of the Antarctic Forum was the visit to China’s oldest Antarctic Station (constructed 1985). Named for one of China’s most incredible human achievements, the building of the Great Wall, the station has grown to 15 buildings from its original handful of structures. Returning to the station with the forum team was Director Yang, the first director of the station’s wintering over team.

Post Office Set up in Antarctica

China resumed a post office at the Great Wall Station in Antarctica at 5 pm Beijing time on Friday, according to Wang Ou, an official with the Beijing Post Bureau. Yong Gaoqian, a postal clerk from the Beijing International Post Office, has arrived at the Great Wall Station and will serve as the only full-time postal clerk in the post office, though he planned to train an Antarctic explorer as his part-time assistant, Wang told China Daily. This is the first time in the past two decades that mail from China has been delivered to Antarctica, according to Chi Tao, an official with the Beijing International Post Office.

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1 The Great Wall Station was the first Chinese research station in Antarctica and opened on 20 February 1985.

2 China is preparing to mark 30 years of polar expeditions, when on 20 February 1985 opened its first permanent research station in Antarctica, The Great Wall on King George Island.

3 The antarctic Great Wall weather station of China which was set up in 1985 locates in King George Island,its station number is 89058.