McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station sits on the southern tip of
Ross Island in
Antarctica,
2,200 miles (3,500 km) due south of
New Zealand, and serves as the logistics hub for half the continent. Established in
1956, it is now reported to be Antarctica's largest community, but was the original site for British explorer
Robert Falcon Scott.
Features include a harbour, an airport, a helicopter pad and over 100 buildings. The primary focus of the work done here is science, but the summer residents (approximately 1,000 in the summer, shrinks to less than 200 in the winter) process the cargo brought in to support the field camps.
Facilities at the station include: