It is situated in the Revinge area, a military training fields. The landscape is a mixture of grazed areas, pine and deciduous forests and moist meadows. There are laboratory facilities and accommodation. This can be used by individual researchers who want to do field work in the area or need a place to stay during shorter visits to Lund. The station can also accommodate up to 20 people for shorter meetings.
Catering is self service but arrangements with local catering firms can be made.
This brief history is given to help those people that in the past have had contact with the department or its people to relate their contacts to the present organization. Per Brinck is appointed Professor in Zoology. He and the rest of the Department of Zoology is housed in Helgonav. After that a subdepartment of Systematics, Animal Geography and Animal Ecology is formed. The subdepartment moves to a new location at Helgonav.