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Troll Research Station

Address

Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

Operated by Norsk Polarinstitutt
https://npolar.no/

Station manager

Jon Hugo Strømseng and Christina A. Pedersen

Contact Station

Phone: +47 55 90 64 81 / 55 90 64 84.

https://npolar.no/en/troll/

Station Features

Opening year: 0 Status: Open
  • Type of station: Station
  • Operational period: Year-round
  • Name of station owner: Norwegian Polar Institute
  • Type of owner: Research institution
  • Name of managing institution: Norwegian Polar Institute
  • Managing Institution Country: Norway
  • Station owner country: Norway
  • Partner institution: No
  • Station latitude: -72,01170000
  • Station longitude: 2,53500000
  • Region (station location): Continental Antarctica
  • Altitude of station: 1275 m a.s.l
  • Type of surface facility is built on: Ice-free ground
  • Climate zone: Inland Antarctica
  • Mean annual temperature: -18 °C
  • Mean temperature in February: -10,9 °C
  • Mean temperature in July: -24,8 °C
  • Precipitation type: Snow
  • Snow free period (month to month): None
  • Dominant wind direction: East
  • Mean annual wind speed: 1,1 m/s
  • Maximum wind speed (absolute): 56,1 m/s
  • Atmospheric Clear air zone, High elevation, Low humidity
  • Geomorphological Moraine, Mountain, Rock, Other
  • Permafrost zone Continuous
  • Wildlife Bird colonies
  • Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Region Dronning Maud Land
  • Antarctic Environmental Domain East Antarctic inland ice sheet

Facilities

  • Number of staff peak season/summer: 35
  • Number of staff off season/winter: 6
  • Area under roof: 1500 m²
  • Max. number of visitors at a time : 70
  • Showers: Yes
  • Laundry facilities: Yes
  • Power supply - period: 24 hours.
  • Power sources at station Diesel/oil/gas, Solar, Wind
  • Waste management: Yes
  • Hazard(ous) management: Yes
  • Logistics area: 1000 m²
  • Conference room capacity: 20
  • Workshops Mechanical, Metal, Wood
  • Means of transportation to/from station Boat, Chartered plane/helicopter, Other, Snowmobile
  • Transport on land - at station Tracked vehicle, SUV (4x4), ATV, Snowmobile, Other
  • Water landing facilities Warf/pier
  • Access: Air, Land
  • Number of airstrips: 1
  • Length (m) of longest runway: 3000
  • Width (m) of longest runway: 60
  • Helipad: Yes
  • Number of ship visits per year: 1
  • Period of ship visits per year: January, February, December
  • Number of flight visit per year: 7
  • Period of flight visit per year: January, February, March, November, December
  • Specific device/Scientific equipment: As requested
  • Communications Computer, E-mail, Fax, Internet, Printer, Satellite telephone, Scanner, Telephone, VHF
  • Medical facilities: Yes
  • Medical capability Basic, Dental, Surgery
  • Distance to hospital (km): 0
  • Area of medical facilities (m2): 15 m²
  • Medical equipment Anaesthesia, Blood transfusion medicine, Diagnostic X-ray, Diagnostic ultrasound, Laboratory diagnostics, Telemedicine
  • Staff with basic medical training or doctor (Summer): Yes
  • Staff with basic medical training or doctor (Winter): Yes
  • Closest emergency facility in Antarctica: 4400 km
  • Closest emergency facility external: 4400 km
  • Medical screening requirements: Yes

Science

  • Transnational Access: Yes
  • Remote Access: No
  • INTERACT Virtual Access: No
  • Climate
    • Snow
    • Rain
    • Hail
  • Landscape and environment
    • Clear air zone
    • Bluff
    • High elevation
    • Coast
    • Low artificial light pollution
    • Fjord
    • Low humidity
    • Hill
    • Other Atmospheric
    • Lake
    • Melt streams
    • Moraine
    • Mountain
    • Permanent snowpatches
    • Plateau
    • Rock
    • Sea
    • Shoreline
    • Terrestrial geothermal
    • Valley
    • Nunataks
    • Crevasse
    • Ice cap
    • Glacier
    • Blue ice
    • Ice shelf
    • Ice tongue
    • Sea-ice
    • Snow
    • Sustrugui
    • Other
    • Continuous
    • Discontinuous
    • Sporadic
    • None
    • Bird colonies
    • Seal colonies
    • Other biological
    • North-east Antarctic Peninsula
    • South Orkney Islands
    • North-west Antarctic Peninsula
    • Central south Antarctic Peninsula
    • Enderby Land
    • Dronning Maud Land
    • East Antarctica
    • North Victoria Land
    • South Victoria Land
    • Transantarctic Mountains
    • Ellsworth Mountains
    • Marie Byrd Land
    • Adelie Land
    • Ellsworth Land
    • South Antarctic Peninsula
    • Prince Charles Mountains
    • Antarctic Peninsula northern geologic
    • Antarctic Peninsula mid-northern latitudes geologic
    • Antarctic Peninsula southern geologic
    • East Antarctic coastal geologic (e.g. Vestfold, Bunger, Wilson hills)
    • Antarctic Peninsula, Alexander (and other islands main ice fields and glaciers)
    • Larsen Ice Shelf (also includes Prince Gustav and other northern peninsula ice shelf remnants)
    • Antarctic Peninsula offshore islands (e.g. most of Deception Island)
    • East Antarctic low latitude glacier tongues (e.g. Mertz, Rennick)
    • East Antarctic ice shelves (e.g. Fimbulisen, Amery, Shackleton, Cook, Moubray Bay)
    • Southern latitude coastal fringe ice shelves and floating glaciers (e.g. Pine Island,Thwaites, Getz, Drygalski)
    • Northern latitude ice shelves (e.g. Wordie, George VI, Wilkins, Abbot, Riser-Larsenisen, Nansen)
    • Continental coastal-zone ice sheet
    • Continental mid-latitude sloping ice (e.g. Ellsworth & Coats lands, upper Lambert Gl, northern Berkner & Thurston islands)
    • East Antarctic inland ice sheet
    • West Antarctic Ice Sheet (also includes inland Coats Land, Taylor Dome, Ross Island ice cap)
    • Ross and Ronne-Filchner ice shelves
    • East Antarctic high interior ice sheet
    • Transantarctic Mountains geologic (Shackleton Range to Cook Mountains)
    • McMurdo - South Victoria Land geologic (also includes Ellsworth, Werner etc mountains)
    • Inland continental geologic (Dronning Maud, MacRobertson, Victoria, Oates lands, Ford Range)
    • North Victoria Land geologic (also includes Executive Committee Range, Prince Charles & Jones mountains)
  • Housing and accomodation
    • Showers
    • Laundry facilities
    • Municipal grid
    • Diesel/oil/gas
    • Wood
    • Solar
    • Wind
    • Water
    • Geothermal
    • Biofuel
    • Other
    • Waste management
    • Hazard(ous) management
  • Logistics
    • Electrical and IT technologies
    • Mechanical
    • Metal
    • Wood
    • Plexiglas
    • Other
    • Walk
    • Tracked vehicle
    • Truck
    • SUV (4x4)
    • Car
    • ATV
    • Zodiac
    • Snowmobile
    • Open boat/Dhinghy
    • Closed boat
    • Bicycles
    • Amphibie vehicle
    • Ski
    • Other
    • Snow shoes
    • KickSledges
    • Other
    • Ski
    • Snowmobile
    • Boat
    • Car
    • Tracked vehicle
    • Truck
    • SUV (4x4)
    • Bus
    • Train
    • Scheduled flight
    • Chartered plane/helicopter
    • Other
    • None
    • Harbour/port
    • Warf/pier
    • Pontoon/float bridge
    • Barges
    • Beach
    • Hydroponics facilities
    • Helipad
  • Communication and IT
    • Computer
    • E-mail
    • Fax
    • Internet
    • Printer
    • Satellite telephone
    • Scanner
    • Telephone
    • VHF
  • Medical facilities
    • Medical facilities
    • Basic
    • Medium
    • Extensive
    • Dental
    • Surgery
    • Other
    • Aeromedical equipment
    • Altitude medicine
    • Anaesthesia
    • Biochemistry
    • Blood transfusion medicine
    • Diagnostic X-ray
    • Diagnostic ultrasound
    • Endoscopy
    • Haematology
    • Hyperbaric recompression chamber
    • Laboratory diagnostics
    • Microbiology
    • Ophthalmology
    • Telemedicine
    • Other
    • Staff with basic medical training or doctor (Summer)
    • Staff with basic medical training or doctor (Winter)
    • Medical research capabilities
    • Medical screening requirements
  • Partner institutions (involved in the operation of the station)
    • Partner institution

Station name and owner

Troll Research Station, Norwegian Polar Institute

Location

Troll is around 235 km from the coast, at Jutulsessen, in Dronning Maud Land.

Climate data

Grey colours are WMO Climate Normals including maximum and minimum values. Blue colours are individual years.

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Climate data for the stations where extracted via Copernicus Climate Data Store, from the global gridded reanalysis product:
ERA5 monthly averaged data on single levels from 1940 to present. Description and source code: Roemer J.K. 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10214922 Data Source: Hersbach et al. 2023. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS), https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7

Biodiversity and natural environment

Bird colonies in the area.

History and facilities

Troll station opened on February 1990 for summer-only operation. Opened for year-round operation on February 2005.

General research and databases

Year round clean air facility, geology, geodesy, glaciology and biology. Satellite ground station.

Station Monitoring

Human dimension

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