The 970-kilometer-wide Drake Passage would take a whole day to cross by boat.

But this distance, at the BA609's high speed of 509 kilometers per hour, took less than two hours to be directly conquered.

Having just entered the Antarctic Peninsula, BA609 is in McCarrow. Under Ricardo's control, he descended rapidly, and the fuselage was also blown by the wind due to the drop in altitude, and began to become a little shaky and bumpy. Although it has entered the Antarctic Peninsula, the narrow Antarctic Peninsula is deep into the icy waters of the Southern Ocean, so the wind here is still strong.

Admiral Brown Station is located on the west coast of the northern half of the Antarctic Peninsula, and in fact, with the exception of a very small number of research stations, almost all countries that have research stations on the Antarctic Peninsula will place their research stations in the coastal zone, because only in the coastal zone will there be bare ground.

The Antarctic continent is covered by heavy ice caps all year round, with an area of 13.9 million square kilometers, of which only 0.4% of the land is not covered by ice caps, so these lands that are not covered by ice caps have become the first choice for scientific research stations in various countries.

As the warmest region of the entire Antarctic continent, the coastal zone of the Antarctic Peninsula has the largest number of scientific research stations, and there are dozens of perennial, summer or unmanned observation stations on this 1,300-kilometer-long peninsula that reaches deep into the Antarctic Ocean.

Admiral Brown Station, about 300 kilometres from the northernmost tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, is a summer station on a tiny peninsula on the Antarctic Peninsula opposite Onwell Island. This small peninsula is only about 600 meters long and 150 meters wide, and is connected to the Antarctic Peninsula by an isthmus that is only about 40 meters wide. Admiral Brown Station, which has a total of five buildings, is located at the northwest end of this small peninsula.

BA609 in McCullough. With Ricciardo's superb driving skills, he stopped steadily on the ice field near the research station. As soon as he opened the car door, Tang Feng was almost blown by the strong wind blowing in front of him.

Pulling the zipper of the neckline, Tang Feng jumped off the plane against a strong wind of at least eight degrees, ran two steps, and shook hands with a middle-aged man in his forties who was standing more than twenty meters away.

"Hehe, you must be Mr. Tang, right? Hello. I'm Eduardo, the head of Admiral Brown Station. Fontana, I've received a call from above about you. Mr. Don, welcome to Admiral Brown Station. ”

"Thank you, thank you, Dr. Fontana. It is an honor for me to be here at this small but very beautiful research station. Tang Feng replied loudly. To speak here, you have to shout at the top of your voice, or in the bitter cold wind. Your voice doesn't reach the ears of the person on the other side.

"Okay, let's stop standing here and talking, let's go inside and say, I've prepared a hot coffee for you and the driver, and you can enjoy it."

McCullough. Ricardo also ran over from the plane and followed Tang Feng into the room, which was more than ten meters long and more than four meters wide, supported by dozens of concrete pillars more than three meters high.

The buildings of the Antarctic research station are basically supported by columns. Because the wind and snow in Antarctica are too great, if the building sits directly on the surface. Then if there is a random snowstorm, the house will be buried directly by the snow. In this way, snow and wind can pass under the building, rather than burying it.

As soon as he entered the door, the oncoming heater suddenly made Tang Feng almost groan comfortably. Moaned out, in just two and a half hours. Tang Feng experienced a great temperature difference. In Rio Grande, on the South American continent, the temperature is almost 30 degrees Celsius at the end of November, and here, when you first get off the plane, the temperature here is about zero degrees at most. It's still daytime, and at night, the temperature drops below -15 degrees Celsius. The temperature in the research station is almost eighteen. Nine degrees, very comfortable.

This building is where the scientific research personnel live, as for the other four buildings, except for one of which is a material warehouse, the remaining three are for the scientific research equipment, and some specific scientific research work will be completed in those three buildings.

Admiral Brown Station is a 65-year-old station, which was established here by the Argentine government in 1951.

However, this is only a summer station, and from November to the end of February of the following year, there will be scientific expeditions living here for four months, so it will naturally not be compared with those perennial stations.

There are now a total of eight scientists working here at this research station, which can be regarded as a sparse staff. You must know that the largest scientific research station on the entire Antarctic continent, the McMurdo scientific research station in the United States, in the summer, the number of scientific research personnel can be as high as 1,100, which is no different from a small town. Even in winter, the McMurdo Research Station has 125 scientists stationed there all year round.

However, it was also at this McMurdo station that some time ago broke out with a great ugliness. The reason is that the scientists working at this research station actually consume a full 16,000 sets a year. cover

It is said that according to the flow of people in different seasons, the average population of the station is about 575 people, of which 2/3 are males (about 378 people). Pregnancy. The number of sets is 44. However, these users do not stay here all year round, and usually rotate every few months.

And the A.V big country neon country has only more than 40 times a year per capita, so it seems that the staff at McMurdo Station are indeed doing well

Compared with McMurdo Station, Admiral Brown Station is really incomparable in terms of the number of people and the gender of the scientific expedition personnel, because the eight scientists here are all men

For Tang Feng's arrival, the other seven scientists at the research station all expressed a very warm welcome, and a large part of their scientific research funds were sponsored by Mr. Sigman, so they must show enough respect for Mr. Sigman's friends.

McCullough. After resting for about an hour, Ricardo and several scientific expedition personnel unloaded the supplies that had been transported, and then drove the BA609 back to the South American continent after refueling.

In fact, for Tang Feng's trip to the South Pole this time, Sigman made more preparations than Tang Feng imagined. When Tang Feng went to Calama, Chile to re-explore the underground hall, Sigman had already arranged for a supply ship, and the tracked snowmobile, snowmobile fuel and BA609 needed for the return trip were all delivered here two days ago with the supply ship. (To be continued.) )