Kohnen-Station

- 750.066666666666667Koordinaten: 75 ° 0 ' S, 0 ° 4' O

The Kohnen Station is a German polar research station in Antarctica. It is a summer station, which houses up to 20 residents. It is named after the geophysicist Heinz Kohnen, the long time was head of the logistics department of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

The station was built in 2001 on the Queen Maud Land from the containers of the former Filchner station, which had to be recovered in 1999. It is located at 75 ° 00 ' S, 0 ° 04 ' E in 2892 meters altitude, about 757 km southeast of the Neumayer Station II

The Kohnen station serves as a logistical base for the ice cores in the Queen Maud Land of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica ( EPICA ). It is a European Tiefeisbohrprojekt to reconstruct the climate of the Atlantic sector of Antarctica in the last hundred thousand years.