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Jang Bogo Station

Jang Bogo Station
Antarctic base
South Korean Jang Bogo Station seen from a ridge south of it in January 2017
Jang Bogo Station Location of Jang Bogo Station in Antarctica
Coordinates: 74°37′26″S 164°13′44″E / 74.624015°S 164.228815°E / -74.624015; 164.228815
Country	South Korea
Location in Antarctica	Terra Nova Bay Ross Sea
Administered by	Korea Polar Research Institute
Established	February 2014 (2014-02)
Elevation [1]	36.6 m (120.1 ft)
Population  (2017)[1]
• Summer	62
• Winter	23
UN/LOCODE	AQ JBS
Type	All-year round
Period	Annual
Status	Operational
Activities	Climate change
Website	Korea Polar Research Institute

The Jang Bogo StationinTerra Nova Bay, Antarctica is a permanent South Korean research station. It is the second base of South Korean Antarctic research mission (after King Sejong Station), and the first that is located in mainland Antarctica. Completed in February 2014,^[2] the station houses 23 people in winter and 62 in summer^[1] in a 4000 square-metre building with three wings, and is one of the larger permanent bases in Antarctica.

The base, named after an eighth-century maritime ruler of Korea, is located in the Ross Dependency and near the Zucchelli Station of Italy. It was built by Hyundai Engineering and Construction, with material shipped from BusantoLyttelton, New Zealand for transfer to the new Korean icebreaker, the RS Araon. For aeronautic operations such as the transport of personnel or cargo, the base is supported by the Italian Antarctic Program using the ice runway operated by Zucchelli Station in Tethys Bay.

Jang Bogo Station opened on 12 February 2014.^[3][4] A dedication ceremony was held for it by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries.

See also[edit]

• List of Antarctic research stations
• List of Antarctic field camps
• King Sejong Station, the first South Korean research mission in Antarctica, completed in 1988.

References[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jang Bogo Station.

• Antarctic oil sets up cold war by Michael Field in the Sunday Star-Times (New Zealand) of 18 September 2011, page A13.

Geography

South Korea

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