Time in Vostok Antarctica
What is the Time in Vostok (Russia) Antarctica
The current local time in Vostok can be seen running live on the Analog Clock
on top. Being a Russian Research Station the time is Vostak is maintained at par
with a Russian Time zone. The Russian Research Station Vostok at this time in
Antartica maintains a time of UTC+6:00 hours and at this time Vostok station
does not maintain DST or Daylight Saving Time. Hence the time in Vostok in
Antarctica contiues to maintain the same time offset of six hours ahead of UTC
throughout the year.
About Vostok Station at this Time in Antarctica
The longitude and latitudes at this time of Vostok is 78°27′S 106°50′E.
Vostok at this time is the not the only Russian Antarctic Research Program. The
Vostok Polar Research Organisation is administering the statino located at an
elevation of about 11,444 feet or 3.488 kilometers above the mean sea level.
Vostok is in inland Princess Elizabeth Land Antarctica. The Vostok station was
established at a time when Russia was known as USSR or Soviet Union way back on
16 December 1957 by the second Soviet Antarctic Expedition.
The Vostok station
lies near the Southern Pole of Cold with the lowest measured temperature on
Earth of -89 deg C or -129 deg F. The Vostok Research Station of Russia in
Antarctica lies about 1300 kilometers from the Geographic South Pole at the
center of the east Antarctic Ice Sheet and it is within the Australian Antarctic
Territory. But due to a signatory to the Antarctic Treaty System, Australia does
not exercise any sovereignity over this territory and thus there is no conflict
at this time.
At this time Vostok is the most isolated established research conducting
station in the entire Antarctic continent. The supplies to the station comes
from Mirny Station on the Antarctic Coast. The Vostok station was built to
sustain at least 25 scientists and engineers in the summer. At this time in winters just about
13 people remains in the station. It is not easy to survive in minus 72 degree
Centigrade below zero or below freezing point.
Climate in Vostok Russian Antarctic Research Station
The weather in Vostok Station in
Antarctica has ice cap climate with subzero cold throughout the year. There is
just about 2 cm precipitation in the entire year which cannot be measured
accurately. So the scientists usually measure the amount snow accumulation which
is easier. It snows about a 26 days in a year. Even though the sun is never seen
from May to August when it is all night for four months, when the sun comes then
Vostok has more sunshine hours in the year than the sunniest place on habitable
earth like South Africa. To be precise there are 708 hours of sunshine in
December alone with an average sunshine of 23 hours a day.
The Vostok station was closed after 37 years temeporarily from February to
November in the year 1994. In the year 1974, British scientists performed an
airborne ice penetrating radar survey and found the worlds largest fresh water
lake about 4000 meters or 13000 feet below the ice surface in Antarctica and
called it Lake Vostok which at this time is one of the 140 fresh lakes
discovered in Antarctica. Vostok name came from the word Vostok which stands for
East. Vostok also happened to be one of the first Russian Antarctic Expedition
Ship whose Captain was Fabian Von Bellingshausen.
Research at this Time in Vostok Station Antarctica
At this time the Russian Antarctic Research Station Vostok is situated near
the South Pole of Inaccessibility and the South Geomagnetic Pole. This makes
Vostok one of the optimal places on earth to observe the changes in the Earth's
Magnetosphere. Other research includes Actinometr, Geophsics, Medicine and
Climatology.
Location of Vostok Station at this Time in Antarctica
The location at this time in Antarctica of Vostok Russian Research Station
can be seen on the location map of Antarctica given below marking Vostok Station
as well.
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