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The Schirmacher Oasis is an ice-free region in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica of about 35 km² in area.
... Das Gebiet dieser mit 34 km² Fläche kleinsten Antarktischen Oase ist eine für die Ostantarktis typische küstennahe Frostschuttwüste.
The Schirmacher Oasis (also Schirmacher-Lake plateau)is a 25 km long and up to 3 km wide ice-free plateau with more than 100 fresh-water lakes on the Pricess-Astrid-coast in Queen Maud Land in the East Antarctica. This region ranks among the smallest Antarctic oases with its 34 km². ...
At the beginning of 1939, the Nazis launched an expedition to explored an uncharted area of the Antarctic. They surveyed an area between latitudes 69°10’ S and 76°30’ S and longitudes 11°30 W and 20°00’ E, totaling 600,000 km² calling it Neuschwabenland, or New Swabia. The area was surveyed by two Dornier hydroplanes, Boreas and Passat one piloted by Richardheinrich Schirmacher who on 3 February, 1939 spotted both the oasis and the lake at its centre. Schirmacher named both after himself[1].
The Schirmacher oasis has a width of around 3.5 km, a length of about 20 km, and is on average 100 metres above sea level. The average annual temperature is -10.5 C, summer, -0.9 C to winter -22 C [2]. A number of theories exist about the formation of the oasis that include geothermal heating, intense insolation, or the ice flow being blocked by a geological feature such as a mountain.
The Oasis contains Maitri (India's second permanent Antarctic research station) and Novolazarevskaya Station (a Russian research station).
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Coordinates: 70°46′0″S 11°44′00″E / 70.766667°S 11.7333333°E
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