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Zhongshan Station (Antarctica)

Zhongshan Station is the second Chinese research station in Antarctica and was opened on February 26, 1989.

Overview
Zhongshan Station is named after Sun Yat-sen, who served as the provisional first president of the Republic of China in 1912. It is managed by the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC). It is located in the Larsemann Hills by Prydz Bay in East Antarctica, and is near the Russian Progress II Station and the Romanian Law-Racoviță-Negoiță Station. The station can accommodate 60 summering personnel ==History==
History
Four years after establishing the Great Wall Station, China's first research base in Antarctica, Guo Kun led another expedition to Antarctica, with the mission to establish a second base. The team set out from Qingdao in November 1988 on the ship Jidi. After reaching Prydz Bay in Antarctica, the ship encountered a major icefall in the night of 14 January 1989. She missed being directly hit by ice by just two or three meters, and became trapped by icebergs for seven days. Many team members wrote their wills and were ready to die. The icebergs shifted on the seventh day and temporarily created a 30-meter-wide opening, and the team escaped. The opening lasted for just two hours before being closed again. ==See also==
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