Eights Station

Antarctic camp

Eights Station

Location of Little Rockford Station in Antarctica

Coordinates:  [ ⚑ ] : 75°08′S 77°06′W﻿ / ﻿75.14°S 77.10°W﻿ / -75.14; -77.10
Country|  United States
Location in Antarctica| Ellsworth Land
Antarctica
Established| January 1963 (1963-01)
Closed| November 1965 (1965-11)

Eights Station was an Antarctic permanent exploration base from January 1963 to November 1965,[1] located on Ellsworth Land[2] about 1100 km from Byrd Station and 2400 km from McMurdo Station.[3] The station consisted of 11 prefabricated buildings that were brought in via planes[4] and located on the site of the former "Sky-Hi" airlift project temporary scientific camp.[5] The station was named for James Eights who was the first American Naturalist who visited Antarctica at the beginning of the 19th Century. The station was initially supported by 6 scientists and 5 Armed Forces attendants[3] and included observations on meteorology, the ionosphere, geomagnetism, and aurora[6] and radio waves.[7][8] At its peak, Eights Station hosted 27 personnel,[1] including individuals from the U.S. Antarctic Research Program Summer Party.[4]

## See also

* List of Antarctic research stations

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 (in en) ﻿Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and International Law of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives﻿ (Report). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1977. p. 121. https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/54190NCJRS.pdf. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
2. ↑ (in en) ﻿Antarctica Report - 1965﻿ (Report). U.S. Government Printing Office. 1965. p. 107. https://li.proquest.com/elhpdf/histcontext/HRG-1965-IIA-0008.pdf. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dubrovin, L.I.; Petrov, V.N. (1971) (in en). Scientific Stations in Antarctica 1882-1963. Gidrometeorologicheskoe Izdatel'stvo. New Delhi: Indian National Scientific Documentation Center. pp. 327–329. https://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/igy1/DAHLI_IGY003_0047.pdf.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 ﻿Bulletin of the U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer﻿ (Report). 4. December 1962. https://s3.amazonaws.com/Antarctica/POB/POBvIVn3.pdf. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
5. ↑ Quartermain, L.B., ed (September 1962). "Deep Freeze 63 Plans Early Start" (in en). Antarctic: A News Bulletin (Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Antarctic Society) 3 (3): 117. https://antarcticsociety.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Antarctic.V3.3.1962.pdf. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
6. ↑ Reedy, Rear Admiral James R. (November 1963). ﻿Bulletin of the U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer﻿ (Report). 5. https://s3.amazonaws.com/Antarctica/POB/POBvVn3.pdf. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
7. ↑ Simons, Howard (December 1965). "Antarctic Tests Hint of Gaines to Come in World Communications, Food Supply". The Polar Times 61: 7. ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/journals/polar_times/G575P631965no61.pdf.
8. ↑ Singh, Kalpana; Singh, R.P.; Ferencz, Orsolya E. (2004). "Simulation of whistler mode propagation for low latitude stations". Earth, Planets and Space 56 (10): 979–987. doi:10.1186/BF03351795. Bibcode: 2004EP&S...56..979S. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/BF03351795.pdf.

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