What direction is the new Ross Sea Station located in Zhongshan Station: southeast of Zhongshan Station
The foundation stone for the new Ross Sea Station was laid on the island of Difficulty of Words at a site located at latitude of 74 degrees and 54 minutes south, and longitude of 163 degrees and 46 minutes east. Zhongshan Station is located at 69 degrees 22 minutes south latitude, 76 degrees 23 minutes east longitude. Accordingly, it can be seen that the new Ross Sea station is located in the southeast of the Zhongshan station.
Ross Sea New Station is China's fifth Antarctic research station. It is located along the coast of the Ross Sea area, one of the three major Antarctic bays, facing the Pacific Ocean sector, and is an area where typical natural geographic units such as the lithosphere, cryosphere, biosphere and atmosphere in the Antarctic region concentrate their interactions, which is of important scientific research value.
1, construction significance
The Ross Sea is an area of concentrated interaction of typical natural geographic units such as the lithosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere in the Antarctic region, and has important scientific research value. As of February 2018, six countries, including the United States, New Zealand, Italy and Russia, have constructed seven research stations in this region, and the largest marine protected area in Antarctica has been selected and established in the Ross Sea region internationally.
2, the construction process
Ross Sea new station preproduction project is an important task of the Antarctic research. 2017 early December "Xuelong" ship arrived for the first time on the island of Enclaves, with a helicopter will be deployed on the island of 340 tons of materials; in January 2018, the "Xuelong" in the middle of the month, the "Xuelong" in the middle of the month, the "Xuelong" in the middle of the month. In mid-January 2018, after returning from Zhongshan Station, the ship transported station construction machinery and heavy materials to the island, and then began the construction of temporary buildings for the new station.
3, station work
According to the plan, the new station in the Ross Sea will be completed in 2022, when it will be equipped to carry out scientific investigations of geology, meteorology, meteorites, marine, biological, atmospheric, glacial, seismic, geomagnetic, remote sensing, space physics and other guaranteed conditions in the region.
Satisfying the long-term living, working and medical needs of the management, scientific research and logistic support personnel in summer and winter, the station will have the functions of remote real-time monitoring and satellite communication, and guaranteeing the operation of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, becoming China's "modernized Antarctic research station" with "complete functions, advanced equipments, low-carbon and environmental protection, safety and reliability, international leadership, and humanistic innovation". It has become China's "complete function, advanced equipment, low-carbon environmental protection, safe and reliable, international leading, humanistic and innovative" modern Antarctic research station.