Zucchelli Station
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The Mario Zucchelli Station ( MTS ) is an Italian Antarctic Station Built in 1985 at the Ross Sea in the Terra Nova Bay in Victoria Land. By the year 2004 was the research station station Baia Terra Nova ( New Earth Bay Station), according to the Terra Nova Bay in which it was created, it was named after the late first conductor of the Italian Antarctic program. The station is located on a peninsula north-south orientation, which provides access to the sea in the east and west is granted. It lies on an ice-free rock 15 m above sea level and 100 meters from the coast.
The station consists of seven main buildings and several auxiliary buildings and holds up to 80 scientists.
Three kilometers from the station, there is a start and runway (3000 m long, 70 m wide), which can be served in the Antarctic summer from a Hercules C -130 transport plane. Can be supplied, the research station also of transport ships, operating from Christchurch in New Zealand from. Regular services are guaranteed by the Italian research vessel Italica and the Italian Air Force. The operated only during the summer months, MTS also serves as a logistics base for the 1200 km distant French-Italian station Concordia Dome which is open year-round.
Nearest stations are the Gondwana Station and McMurdo Station and Scott station with 350 km away, the nearest port is Lyttelton in New Zealand 3200 km.
Princess Anne visited in February 2002, the Mario Zucchelli Station as part of their journey to the 100th anniversary of the arrival of polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott.