Pole of Inaccessibility (Antarctic research station)

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The station pole of inaccessibility (Russian: Полюс недоступности, transcribed as Polyus Nedostupnosti ) was a Soviet research station in East Antarctica, whose remains are located on the eponymous pole of inaccessibility.

The station was at 3800 m and 463 km from the geographic South Pole and about 600 km from the former Soviet research station Sovetskaya.

The research institute was established in 1958 for meteorological observations or measurements in the third Soviet Antarctic Expedition in the International Geophysical Year and operated from 14 to 26 December 1958. It consisted of three cabins, including a small shelter for four people and simple buildings for radio and measuring systems as well as electronics. The activities undertaken in the vicinity of the station observation and research carried out in large parts of laboratory vehicles.

Today, from the station except a bust of Lenin and a plaque only one building exists, but which has been almost completely buried by snow. The place is now provided as a historic site No. 4 under the protection of the Antarctic Treaty.