Showa Station (Antarctica)

Syowa Station serves as a research outpost for astronomy, meteorology, biology and earth sciences. It comprises over 60 separate buildings, large and small, including a 3-storey administration building, living quarters, power plant, sewage treatment facility, environmental science building, observatory, data processing facility, satellite building, ionospheric station, incinerator, earth science building, and radiosonde station. Also present are fuel tanks, water storage, solar panels, a heliport, water retention dam, and radio transmitter. == PANSY Incoherent Scatter Radar ==

Syowa station is home to the Program of the Antarctic Syowa Mesosphere–Stratosphere–Troposphere/Incoherent Scatter (PANSY) incoherent scatter radar, which took its first measurements in 2017. ==Legacy==

1957 Expedition The station was founded by the inaugural Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition in 1957. This expedition was airlifted out after a storm, by a nearby American ship that had a helicopter. However there was no space for the dogs to get on. The storm made deploying the second team impossible in February 1958. In January 1959, the third team returned to the station and found that, of the 15 sled dogs that had been left by the first team at the base, two, Taro and Jiro, had survived. Historic monument A cairn and plaque at the station commemorate Shin Fukushima, a member of the 4th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, who died in October 1960 while carrying out his duties. The cairn, which contains some of his ashes, was erected on 11 January 1961 by his colleagues. It has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 2) following a proposal by Japan to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. ==In popular culture==

• Syowa Station is the Antarctic destination of the protagonists of A Place Further than the Universe, a 2018 Japanese anime series. • The monster Ghidorah is located on the base — called "Outpost 32" — in the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters. • Syowa Station is depicted in the 1983 film Antarctica. • The establishment of Syowa Station is dramatized in Nankyoku Tairiku, a 2011 Japanese television drama. ==Climate==

The climate is classified as an Ice cap climate (Köppen: EF), since there are no months where the average temperature exceeds . == Works ==

• Antarctica (1983 film) • A Place Further than the Universe ==See also==