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Vostok Station

Interesting facts

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VOSTOK STATION WORLDS COLDEST PLACE | -128*| UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT VOSTOK STATION

Construction

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Inside Russia's Arctic military base - BBC News

By drone

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Pilotless Drone - Vostok

Inside

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NASA | The Coldest Place in the World

Movie appearance

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Vostok Station - short film excerpt

Vostok Station is a Russian 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 −89.2 °C. Research includes ice core drilling and magnetometry. Vostok was named after Vostok, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition captained by Fabian von Bellingshausen.
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    • Ice core drilling