Svea Research Station

The Svea Research Station is a Swedish research facility in Antarctica, established in 1987/1988.

Svea Station
Antarctic base
Svea field station in 2001
Svea Station Location of Svea Station in Antarctica
Coordinates: 74°35′00″S 11°13′00″W
Country	Sweden
Location in Antarctica	Heimefront Range Queen Maud Land
Administered by	Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Established	1987 (1987)
Population
• Summer	5
• Winter	0
Type	Seasonal
Period	Summer
Status	Operational
Activities	List Geodesy Seismology
Facilities	Two fiberglass modules
Website	Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

Svea is located in the Scharffenbergbotnen valley in the Heimefrontfjella mountain range, about 400 km from the coast. It is a satellite station to the Wasa Research Station, and is used by small, transient research teams performing fieldwork in the area.

The station is currently the home base for two permanent monitoring projects: continual geodetic measurement using GPS technology, run by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a seismograph that records movements in the Earth's crust, run by the German Alfred Wegener Institute.

See also

• List of Antarctic research stations
• List of Antarctic field camps
• Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
• Wasa Research Station
• Crime in Antarctica

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20141023142720/http://polar.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/broschyr_wasa_svea.pdf Swedish Polar Research Secretariat