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thumb Vostok Station ((ロシア語:Станция Восток, Stántsiya Vostók, lit. "Station East" or "East Station")) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) research station in inland Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. Founded by the Soviet Union in 1957, the station lies at the southern Pole of Cold, with the lowest reliably measured natural temperature on Earth of .〔(Global Measured Extremes of Temperature and Precipitation. ) National Climatic Data Center. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.〕 Research includes ice core drilling and magnetometry. Vostok (Russian for ''"east"'') was named after ''Vostok'', the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition captained by Fabian von Bellingshausen (the second ship ''Mirny'' captained by Mikhail Lazarev became the namesake for Mirny Station). ==Description== Vostok Research Station is about 1,300 km (≈800 mi) from the Geographic South Pole, at the center of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and within the Australian Antarctic Territory. As a signatory to the Antarctic Treaty System, Australia does not exercise sovereignty over the territory. Vostok is located near the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility and the South Geomagnetic Pole, making it one of the optimal places to observe changes in the Earth's magnetosphere. Other studies include actinometry, geophysics, medicine and climatology. The station is at above sea level and is one of the most isolated established research stations on the Antarctic continent. The station was supplied from Mirny Station on the Antarctic coast.〔http://www.aari.nw.ru/projects/Antarctic/stations/mir/mir_en.html〕 The station typically contains 25 scientists and engineers in the summer. In winter, their number drops to 13.〔(Russia abandons Ice Station Vostok )〕 The only permanent research station located farther south is the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, operated by the United States at the geographic South Pole. Some of the challenges faced by those living on the station were described in Vladimir Sanin's books such as "Newbie in the Antarctic" (1973), "72 Degrees Below Zero" (1975), and others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vostok Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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