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Mizuho Station (Antarctica)
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Antarctic
The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...
transshipment station. Located on Mizuho Plateau
Mizuho Plateau
The is a mainly featureless ice plateau in Antarctica, situated eastward of the Queen Fabiola Mountains and southward of the Shirase Glacier in Queen Maud Land. A field party of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition studied the plateau in November to December 1960 before naming it...
2230 m above sea level, it was opened in 1970. It was operated by the Japanese National Institute of Polar Research
National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)
is the Japanese research institute for Antarctica. The agency manages several research bases on the continent:-Research Centers in the NIPR:The NIPR has several research centers on Antarctica topics. Among others there are meteorological, geological, glacier motion, life science, ice dynamics,...
, and closed in 1987. It is occasionally visited by some parties for meteorological and glaciological observations.