Collins Harbour
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Collins Harbour is in King George Island in Antarctica. It is mainly a Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n owned area, and the location of the Russian operated Bellinghausen Station.

Bellinghausen Station

Bellinghausen Station is a Russian station. It normally houses around 25 people despite its maximum being 500000. It has gained a reputation of being a trading poslt, with station members often willing to swap or sell pins, flags and clothing.

Russia set up Bellinghausen in 1968 on the nearly ice-free Fildes Peninsula at the island's southwestern tip. After a fuel tank farm was established the station became a major fuel depot for the Soviet Antarctic
Antarctic
The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...

 fishing fleet
Fishing fleet
A fishing fleet is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels. The term may be used of all vessels operating out of a particular port, all vessels engaged in a particular type of fishing , or all fishing vessels of a country or region.Although fishing vessels are not formally organized as if they...

.

Trinity Church

Trinity Church is a small Russian Orthodox church near Bellinghausen station. It is the most southern Eastern Orthodox church in the World.

Wildlife

The local wildlife consists of Chinstrap penguin
Chinstrap Penguin
The Chinstrap Penguin is a species of penguin which is found in the South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica, the South Orkneys, South Shetland, South Georgia, Bouvet Island and Balleny...

s, Adelie penguin
Adelie Penguin
The Adélie Penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae, is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast. They are among the most southerly distributed of all seabirds, as are the Emperor Penguin, the South Polar Skua, the Wilson's Storm Petrel, the Snow Petrel, and the Antarctic Petrel...

s, Blue eyed shags, Southern Giant Petrel
Southern Giant Petrel
The Southern Giant Petrel , also known as the Antarctic Giant Petrel, Giant Fulmar, Stinker, and Stinkpot, is a large seabird of the southern oceans. Its distribution overlaps broadly with the similar Northern Giant Petrel, though it overall is centered slightly further south...

s and Antarctic tern
Antarctic Tern
The Antarctic Tern is a typical tern. It ranges throughout the southern oceans. It is very similar in appearance to the closely related Arctic Tern, but is stockier, and the wing tips are grey instead of blackish in flight...

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