Kohnen-Station is a German summer-only polar research station in the

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, able to accommodate up to 28 people. It is named after the geophysicist Heinz Kohnen (1938–1997), who was for a long time the head of logistics at the

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. The station opened on January 11, 2001, in

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. The station is located at 75°00'S, 00°04'E, and 2892 m above sea level. It is located 757 km southeast of

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, which lies on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf and provides logistics and administration for Kohnen-Station. Like the United Kingdom's

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V station, the base is built on steel legs allowing the station to be jacked up as the height of the snow surface increases. The station contains a radio room, a mess room, a kitchen, bathrooms, two bedrooms, a snow melter, a store, a workshop, and a power plant (100 kW). It is supplied by a convoy of 6 towing vehicles, which carry up to 20 tons each, and 17 sledges. The base is resupplied twice each year, with up to 6 sledge trains at a time. This traverse takes 9–14 days. ;Sledges About 17 sledges are kept at the station. They are mainly used for transport (pulled via a snowmobile) and logistics. ;Towing vehicles About a convoy of 6 towing vehicles are stationed. They are mainly used for logistics. ;PistenBully Around 3 PistenBully

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are stationed at the base. They are mainly used for logistics, filling the snow melter, and clearing the snow. Kohnen station is the logistic base for the ice coring project in Dronning Maud Land, the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (

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). A core was also drilled at Kohnen station. In 2019, researchers found interstellar iron in Antarctica in snow from the Kohnen Station which they relate to the

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Germany and the Antarctic Princess Martha Coast Outposts of Queen Maud Land 2001 establishments in Antarctica {{PrincessMarthaCoast-geo-stub

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