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Vostok Station
Vostok 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 . 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
).
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