Sovetskaya was a

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

research station in

Kaiser Wilhelm II Land Kaiser Wilhelm II Land is a part of Antarctica lying between Cape Penck at 87° 43'E and Cape Filchner at 91° 54'E. Princess Elizabeth Land is located to the west, and Queen Mary Land to the east. The area is claimed by Australia a ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

that was established on 16 February 1958 and closed on 3 January 1959. The surface

elevation The elevation of a geographic location (geography), ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational equipotenti ...

was initially reported to be ; however, it was later revised to . Reached on 16 February 1958 by the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition for

International Geophysical Year The International Geophysical Year (IGY; ), also referred to as the third International Polar Year, was an international scientific project that lasted from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958. It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War w ...

research work, it closed on 3 January 1959. Its WMO reporting ID was 89557.

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Outposts of Antarctica Polar exploration by Russia and the Soviet Union Outposts of Kaiser Wilhelm II Land Soviet Union and the Antarctic 1959 disestablishments in the Soviet Union 1959 disestablishments in Antarctica 1958 establishments in Antarctica {{KaiserWilhelmIILand-geo-stub

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