The Svea Research Station is a

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research facility in

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, established in 1987/1988. Svea is located in the Scharffenbergbotnen valley in the Heimefrontfjella mountain range, about 400 km from the coast. It is a satellite station to the

Wasa Research Station The Wasa Research Station is a Swedish research facility in Antarctica, established in 1988/1989. It is situated next to the Finnish Aboa Research Station on the ''Basen'' nunatak in the Kraul Mountains in Queen Maud Land. The two stations coope ...

, and is used by small, transient research teams performing fieldwork in the area. The station is currently the home base for two permanent monitoring projects: continual geodetic measurement using GPS technology, run by the

Royal Institute of Technology The KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( sv, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, lit=Royal Institute of Technology), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technolo ...

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, and a

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that records movements in the earth's crust, run by the

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Alfred Wegener Institute.

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information obtained from the official site of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
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