Snow, glaciers, Vernadsky Research Base, Galindez Island, Antarctica.

Snow accumulates in glaciers at Vernadsky Research Base (Akademik Vernadsky), a Ukrainian Antarctic Station at Marina Point on Galindez Island in the Argentine Islands, Antarctica. The United Kingdom first established research here as Base F or "Argentine Islands" on Winter Island in 1947, then built a larger hut on Galindez Island in 1954, renamed it Faraday Station in 1977, and shocked the scientific community by discovering the Antarctic "ozone hole" in 1985. The base was transferred to Ukraine in 1996.

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Snow accumulates in glaciers at Vernadsky Research Base (Akademik Vernadsky), a Ukrainian Antarctic Station at Marina Point on Galindez Island in the Argentine Islands, Antarctica. The United Kingdom first established research here as Base F or "Argentine Islands" on Winter Island in 1947, then built a larger hut on Galindez Island in 1954, renamed it Faraday Station in 1977, and shocked the scientific community by discovering the Antarctic "ozone hole" in 1985. The base was transferred to Ukraine in 1996.