Neumayer-Station III in the Antarctic

8 August 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

© Felix Riess/cc-by-sa-3.0-de

© Felix Riess/cc-by-sa-3.0-de

Neumayer-Station III, also known as Neumayer III after geophysicist Georg von Neumayer, is a German Antarctic research station of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut. It is located on the approximately 200 metres (660 ft) thick Ekstrom Ice Shelf several kilometres south of Neumayer-Station II. The station’s assembly kit was transported to its current position early in November 2007. It is moving with the shelf ice at about 200 meters per year towards the open sea.   read more…

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