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	Vanda Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vanda Station was a summer-only antarctic research base in the western highlands (Victoria Land) of the Ross Dependency, specifically on the shore of Lake Vanda, which is in the Wright Valley.
		The station was administered by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), and was supported logistically by the permanent New Zealand research base of Scott Base on Ross Island.
		There is now a street named after this base in Queenstown, New Zealand — the street is called Vanda Place and is located just a few hundred metres from Scott Place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vanda_Station (230 words)

	Lake Vanda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On its shore, New Zealand maintained Vanda Station from 1968 to 1995.
		Lake Vanda is a lake in Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Ross Dependency, Antarctica.
		Lake Vanda is only one of the many saline lakes in the ice-free valleys of the Transantarctic Mountains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Vanda (136 words)

	Our Beauty - Maciulyte-Guilford
		Vanda, a cousin who came from Lithuania only for a Visit but stayed on as an illegal immigrant, calls to say she is getting married.
		Vanda, who has found a job, an apartment and now, a potential husband, has two children back home in Lithuania, left in her mother's care.
		Vanda is wearing a short, white, strapless dress with three tiers of heavy fringe.
	www.lituanus.org /2000/00_4_04.htm (1621 words)

	Station Information - Vanda
		Vanda is a genus which, though not large, with about seventy species, is one of the most important florally as it has some of the most magnificent flowers to be found in the entire Orchid family and has contributed to the hybridists work in producing flowers for the cut flower market.
		The genus has a monopodial growth habit with leaves that are very variable according to their habitat.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/v/va/vanda.html (106 words)

	Encyclopedia: Vostok, Antarctica
		Vostok research station was built in 1957 during the IGY and has operated year-round for more than 37 years.
		It is the most isolated of all of the established research stations on the Antarctic continent.
		Vostok, Antarctica is a Russian research station located near the Geomagnetic South Pole (see South Pole), at the center of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vostok,-Antarctica (923 words)

	Catalogue of Climate Data from New Zealand Stations in Antarctica
		Vanda Station is in the Wright Valley, which is relatively ice-free and forms part of the Dry Valley system.
		Vanda Station (77.52°S, 161.67°E, altitude 94m) was established by the New Zealand Antarctic Division on the south-east shore of Lake Vanda in 1967.
		The station, which is about 3 km away from the Untied States McMurdo Station, is situated at the southern end of Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island in McMurdo Sound.
	www.wmo.ch /web/www/OSY/Ant-cat-NZ.html (327 words)

	Lonely Planet's Guide to Antarctica
		Typically, station staff will be made up of a team leader, a doctor, chef, a handful of meteorological observers, a seismologist, upper-atmosphere physicist, a few diesel mechanics, a carpenter, plumber and an electrician.
		The Vanda Swimming Club, at the New Zealand summer base, is made up of those who've broken through the ice of Lake Vanda, bared all and taken the plunge.
		As the last resupply vessel pulls away the wintering expeditioners, faced with 8 or 9 months' isolation with their comrades, can feel a mixture of dread and elation, but being cut off from the rest of the world is part of what's attractive for these hardy types.
	webcenter.travel.aol.com /travel/lonely_planet/antarctica/antarctica/culture.html (642 words)

	Lake Vanda Meteorological Station Measurements
		METHODS: During the 1994-1995 field season, the Lake Vanda meteorological station was constructed near the mouth of the Onyx River.
		RESEARCH LOCATION: The Vanda meteorology station is located at a latitude of 77 50.9184 S, a longitude of 160 1116 E, and an elevation of ????
		TIMING: Data was gathered from the Lake Vanda meteorology station on the dates and frequencies listed in the link below.
	huey.colorado.edu /LTER/datasets/meteorology/vanda.html (947 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Mountains of Madness: A Scientist's Odyssey in Antarctica (2001)
		Vanda Station was set up primarily to monitor the rate of water flow of the Onyx River, carry out meteorological observations in the Dry Valleys Region, and act as a general base for other studies of geology or biology in these regions.
		Vanda Station was one large green hut with a kitchen and small recreational lounge area.
		Lake Vanda is approximately 70 meters deep and in places the water temperature may be as high as 113°F, although at the top of the lake it is just below freezing.
	newton.nap.edu /books/0309070775/html/57.html (4536 words)

	Climate of Antarctica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The highest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica was 14.6°C (58.3°F) in two places, Hope Bay and Vanda Station, on January 5, 1974.
		The climate of Antarctica is the coldest on earth, with the lowest temperature ever recorded on earth being -89.4 °C (-129 °F) at Vostok Station.
		The lowest temperature ever recorded in nature on Earth was -89.4°C (-129°F) recorded on Thursday, July 21, 1983 at Vostok Station.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Climate_of_Antarctica (1219 words)

	IRIS Newsletter: Volume 1999, No. 1
		Data from Chinese and Russian stations are received by the LISSes in their respective countries, and then served to the primary LISS located in Albuquerque, New Mexico (as indicated by the heavy green and blue lines).
		Stations HKT and KONO have transients that can be easily identified by a quality control analyst scanning for station problems.
		Rather than having to wait (sometimes up to several months) for data tapes to be mailed from stations in the field to the Data Centers, the QC analyst can, at a glance, detect overt problems (Figure 5) at a station and initiate the appropriate corrective actions.
	www.iris.edu /news/IRISnewsletter/volume1999no1/page02-04.htm (1328 words)

	National Science Foundation
		The Vanda Antarctica station consists of the seismic station at Lake Vanda and a communications relay station at Mt. Newell.
		The seismometer station, referred to as the Vanda Seismic Station because of its location west of Lake Vanda at Bull Pass in the Wright Valley, was established in December 1985 through a collaboration between the US, including the USAF, USGS, and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and New Zealand.
		Lake Vanda’s suite of equipment will consist of a new environmental shelter, two diesel-fueled generators, each with its own fuel tank, one solar array consisting of two banks of photovoltaic cells, one stack of eight lead calcium battery cells, and an automatic fire suppression subsystem.
	huey.colorado.edu /LTER/assessments/eis111398.html (3618 words)

	Vanda's Comments Page: Gas Station Owners Hardly Striking It Rich
		So the station owner, who in the best of times works with a profit margin of 8 cents per gallon, now sees his credit card fees shoot up from 2 cents to 7 cents.
		This station now sells about 10 percent less gas because drivers are cutting back, but still the credit card companies get $8,277 a month.
		Judging by the dirty looks and nasty comments aimed at gas station managers, many of us believe the station owners are raking it in.
	www.abookshelf.org /blog_comments/vanda/archives/2005/09/gas_station_own.html (3374 words)

	Extreme points of Antarctica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Highest temperature so far recorded in Antarctica: 14.6°C (58.3°F) at Vanda Station (New Zealand administered station) on 5 January 1974
		Vostok is the most isolated research base on the continent (located at 77° S 105° E), and it is situated over the southernmost lake in the world, Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) under the surface of the ice where the station sits.
		It is here that the southernmost human habitation on Earth is located: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (U.S. Administered Base).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extreme_points_of_Antarctica (542 words)

	Home
		When Vanda Station in the Dry Valleys was threatened with flooding recently it was replaced with small, removable laboratory and kitchen huts suitable for short stay, tent based parties.
		Vanda Station staff and NZ glaciologists in front of Vanda Station, Wright Valley.
		Environmental research is becoming increasingly important and recent projects have looked at the effects of disturbance and oil spills on permafrost soils, the local wind patterns and air-born emissions from Scott Base and the effects of sewage discharge on the marine community.
	www.anta.canterbury.ac.nz /resources/science.html (1592 words)

	New Zealand Antarctic Covers - the 1980s
		Vanda Station was an NZ sub-base in the Dry Valleys west of McMurdo Sound which operated from 1969 to 1995, when it was decommissioned and the accumulated waste removed.
		The titles are: Adelie penguins, Tracked vehicles, Scott Base, Field party, Vanda Station and Scott's hut, Cape Evans.
		Harrowfield, David L. Vanda Station : history of an Antarctic outpost, 1968-1995.
	www.100megsfree3.com /glaw/scott/80s.htm (956 words)

	Antarctic Warming - Early Signs Of Global Climate Change
		New Zealand scientists report that Lake Vanda, a 75 metre deep lake in the Wright Valley, near their Vanda research station, is rising at a rate of nearly one metre each year.
		The rise is related to an increase in glacier meltwater flowing in via the lake's contributory river, the Onyx; volumes of water flowing into the river have more than doubled in the last decade.
		Possible evidence of climate warming may also be found at several Antarctic lakes, thought to represent a sensitive indicator of short-term climate change.
	archive.greenpeace.org /climate/polar/antarc_report/ant4.html (210 words)

	Weather in Antarctica - Antarctic Connection
		Most Antarctic stations today are equipped with sophisticated weather monitoring technology and are manned by professional meteorologists who perform observations around the clock.
		Automated stations and remote sensing equipment provide a wealth of previously unattainable data and help to paint a more accurate picture of Antarctic weather continent-wide.
		Satellite measurements and photographs of the continent continue to reveal valuable information concerning cloud cover, storm movement, ice formation and distribution patterns, and a variety of other environmental characteristics.
	www.antarcticconnection.com /antarctic/weather/index.shtml (784 words)

	Extreme Climate Habitat Design
		The need therefore is to create a strong sub-floor structure, which in Scott Base, (and the now defunct Vanda Station, in the Dry Valleys) has been a network of trusses, supporting a vinyl-covered, ply-floor.
		Concordia Station a joint-venture by France and Italy, high on the Polar Plateaux, is being funded by NASA & CNES to monitor the effects upon groups of people working together in the second-most remote spot, on the globe.
		Ever since the first man-hauled car crates, for the construction of temporary scientific monitoring stations were delivered to the Scott Base site by Sir Edmund Hillary's team, there has been a desire for the establishment of more permanent structures, in Antarctica.
	www.geocities.com /ResearchTriangle/Lab/1286/echd.htm (1959 words)

	Antarctica Weather
		But on this day, observers at Vanda Station reported the warmest temperature over observed on the continent, 59 degrees.
		Antarctica is the coldest place on earth with temperatures often dropping to 100 below zero at the south pole.
	www.accuweather.com /iwxpage/adctrav/almanac/Antarctica.htm (38 words)

	Vanda Definition / Vanda Research
		Vanda is a one-bedroom romantic cottage, located in a private property of three villas and tropical gardens on Shoal Bay Beach -Anguilla, Caribbean.
		(any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes)
	www.elresearch.com /Vanda (309 words)

	New Page 1
		The highest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica was 59 degrees at Vanda Station, Scott Coast in 1974.
		The most snow in a single season was 1,122 inches, recorded at Paradise Ranger Station, Mt. Rainier, WA 1971-1972.
		His experiment demonstrated that lightning is a form of electricity and paved the way for Franklin's invention of the lightning rod.
	www.geocities.com /weatherwisdom/trivia.htm (272 words)

	WGNTV.com Chicago's WB Weather Words - A
		Antarctica's temperature extremes: A range of 188 degrees from 59 degrees at Vanda Station on Jan. 5, 1974, to -129 degrees at Vostok Station on July 21, 1983.
		Antarctica's highest temperature: 59 degreed at Vanda Station on Jan. 5, 1974.
		When it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere, summer is in full swing in the Southern Hemisphere.
	wgntv.trb.com /news/weather/wgntv-weatherwords-a,0,1389202.story?... (4883 words)

	Antarctica New Zealand
		The station was then used as a summer only research base through until 1973 when it was abandoned.
		This assessment lead to a multi year clean up and remediation plan for the station site and surrounding area.
		In the 1980's and 1990's a large proportion of the original buildings and associated equipment was removed however a number of structres including fuel tanks and debris remained at the site.
	www.antarcticanz.govt.nz /article/1044.html (161 words)

	Salad on Ice
		It is recom- mended that research continue along these lines, perhaps, with a geodesic dome type structure, monitored and used Vanda Station or associated with any stationary field camp.
		Certainly, thoughtful design of buildings, both permanent (Scott Base, Vanda Station) and temporary could increase comfort and reduce fuel costs by effective use of direct solar radiation for heating, lighting and ice melting.
		However, for stationary field parties a similar structure could be of considerable use for heated working conditions and comfortable working.
	www.ozbubble.com.au /salad.htm (1562 words)

	Research seminars at Culterty Field Station
		The programme is subject to revision at short notice, therefore, prospective members of the audience are advised to telephone the Secretary of the station, 01358 789631, to confirm that the seminar will be presented.
		The seminars are held in the Seminar Room at Culterty Field Station at 1530 hrs.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /~nhi600/seminars.html (330 words)

	Antarctic Culture
		The NSF is beginning construction of a new and larger station, and several new and expensive astronomy and astrophysics projects are in development or in planning.
		South Pole Station is comprised of a few buildings and an aircraft skiway sitting on a seemingly endless plain of two-mile-thick snow and ice.
		People at Palmer Station perform the same ritual, though neither the air nor the water are quite as cold as on Ross Island (cold enough, though!).
	www.antarcticaonline.com /antarctica/culture/culture.htm (7618 words)

	p7.htm
		At the time the picture was taken, Bill, who is a station engineer, was busy pumping sour crude oil from our river barges to the Bromley storage tanks.
		Then in February of 1941 he became a station engineer at Lima where he stayed until he entered the army in November.
		Harry Dougherty transferred from a Canton Service Station to Alliance, which is his home town.
	www.dantiques.com /sohio/sohionews/4-1947/p7.htm (1620 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: Nation -- Philly Fifties: TV
		The station's decision to air the national show helped establish a franchise that extends to this day, on virtually every network and large independent station, but it was a crusher to Ernie's Philly fans.
		Vanda had pitched "Action in the Afternoon" ad lib to CBS's New York brass after his earlier ideas had been torpedoed.
		He said the Western would be set in 1884 in the Montana town of Huberle (which Vanda invented by combining the names of network execs Hubbell Robinson and Harry Ommerlee).
	www.time.com /time/nation/printout/0,8816,166670,00.html (2644 words)

	Texas A&M Music Professor Restores Czech Opera
		Alan Houtchens, an expert on the music and life of Dvorak, has spent the past 20 years collecting and editing the original performance materials for "Vanda," composed by one of the most famous of Czech composers.
		"'Vanda' has suffered from both national and local politics in its
		Many years prior, Dvorak had sold the publishing rights of "Vanda" to a German publisher in Leipzig.
	www.tamu.edu /aggiedaily/news/stories/99/021799-4.html (451 words)

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