1984 65438+At 7: 40 pm on February 27th, another group of China Antarctic expedition members boarded George Island on the "Great Wall II" landing craft to carry out some specific work on site selection.
1984 65438+265438+at 0: 50 (local time) on February 29th, with the approval of the National Antarctic Survey Committee, the site of the China Antarctic Great Wall Station was chosen here in Fields Peninsula, with the orientation of 62 degrees south latitude 13 minutes and 58 degrees 55 minutes west longitude.
1984 65438+On the morning of February 3 1 Sunday (local time), the groundbreaking ceremony of China Antarctic Great Wall Scientific Research Station was held grandly.
The Great Wall Station is located in the Fields Peninsula of George Island, facing a small bay of Civil Defence Bay, which has been named Great Wall Bay by China Antarctic expedition team. The Great Wall Station is backed by a hillside covered with snow all year round, and the water source is very rich. The terrain here is open, and the beach is about 2000 meters long and 300 meters wide. It is a penguin nature reserve, a bird nature reserve, a whale reserve, and a plant and fossil reserve. Here, you can also see patches of yellow-green lichens and mosses in summer, which is an ideal place for scientists to inspect.
The groundbreaking ceremony began with the sound of the solemn Chinese national anthem. All the team members were dressed in red and blue down jackets and red hats with the words "China" printed on them, standing neatly under the five-star red flag, feeling extremely excited. When Chen Dehong, the commander-in-chief of Antarctic scientific research, and other comrades erected the cornerstone brought from the motherland on Antarctic land, the audience was full of joy.
At 22: 00 on February 1985 (local time, Beijing time 15: 00 am), the construction of China Antarctic Great Wall Station was completed, and China's first Antarctic research station has risen from the land of George Island in Antarctica.
1985 (local time) On the morning of February 20th, the inauguration ceremony of Antarctic Great Wall Station was held in heavy snow. This indicates that China's Antarctic scientific exploration has entered a new stage.
George Island in Antarctica is wrapped in silver, and the orange-red main building of China Great Wall Station is covered with colorful flags. Southern Ocean expedition team members, "Xiang Yanghong 10" research ship and other personnel involved in the construction of the Great Wall Station arrived at the Great Wall Station by dinghy and helicopter respectively. At the beginning of the inauguration ceremony, gongs and drums were loud, firecrackers were ringing, and there was jubilation. The five-star red flag rose slowly in the solemn national anthem and fluttered over the South Pole.
Wu Heng, director of the National Antarctic Survey Committee, first read out the State Council's congratulatory message. He said that the completion of the China Antarctic Great Wall Station has filled a gap in China's scientific career and laid a foundation for China to systematically inspect the Antarctic in the future, further strengthen international scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation, and peacefully use the Antarctic for the benefit of all mankind. On behalf of the people of the whole country, he expressed warm congratulations and cordial condolences to the investigators who won glory for the motherland.
On June 65438+1 October1day, 2009, the satellite network communication system of the Great Wall of Antarctica was put into use. Great Wall Station is a small scientific research town, where researchers can not only engage in meteorological observation, earth tide observation, satellite Doppler observation, earthquake observation, geomagnetic absolute value observation, high-altitude atmospheric physical observation and so on. , but also in the biological laboratory, radio wave propagation laboratory, geological laboratory, geomorphology and Quaternary geological laboratory, geophysical laboratory, computer room for comprehensive research, experiment, analysis and data processing.
China Antarctic expedition team carried out routine observations on meteorology, ionosphere, upper atmospheric physics, geomagnetism and earthquakes at Great Wall Station all year round. Every year in the Antarctic summer, in addition to routine observation, on-site scientific investigations including geology, geomorphology, geophysics, glaciology, biology, environmental science, human medicine and marine science are also carried out.