Svea Research Station

Svea Station
Svea Station
Antarctic base
	Svea field station in 2001
	Svea Station Location of Svea Station in Antarctica
	Coordinates: 74°35′00″S 11°13′00″W / 74.583333°S 11.216667°W
Country	Sweden
Location in Antarctica	Heimefront Range ; Queen Maud Land
Administered by	Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Established	1987
Population
? Summer	5
? Winter	0
Type	Seasonal
Period	Summer
Status	Operational
Activities	List Geodesy ; Seismology ;
Facilities	Two fiberglass modules
Website	Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

The Svea Research Station is a Swedish research facility in Antarctica , 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 , 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 in Stockholm , and a seismograph that records movements in the Earth's crust, run by the German Alfred Wegener Institute .