Zucchelli Station
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research station located at Terra Nova Bay
Terra Nova Bay
Terra Nova Bay is a bay which is often ice free, about long, lying between Cape Washington and the Drygalski Ice Tongue along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica....
, Antarctica and named for Mario Zucchelli, late director of the Italian Antarctic Program. This facility is operated during the summer months (October - February) and hosts a variety of scientific projects. The Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (National Program for Researches in Antarctica) works closely with the US Antarctic Program and Antarctica New Zealand
Antarctica New Zealand
Antarctica New Zealand is an Institute set up by the New Zealand Government in 1996 to manage its interests in Antarctica and the Ross Sea. As well as providing logistics support to a large scientific programme, it also runs bases such as Scott Base...
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See also
- Concordia StationConcordia StationConcordia Research Station, which opened in 2005, is a research facility that was built 3,233 m above sea level at a location called Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica...
(France and Italy) - Jang Bogo StationJang Bogo StationThe Jang Bogo Station in Terra Nova Bay in the Antarctic is a proposed South Korean research station to be built in 2012. The base will house 15 people in winter and 60 in summer in a 4000 square metre building with three wings, and will be among the larger permanent bases in Antarctica.The base,...
a proposed South Korean station, also in Terra Nova Bay.