Talk:Vostok Station

message: The following is a translation of a comment from the talk page of the Russian article which seems interesting:
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In 1982, a fire broke out at Vostok Station.  The diesel machines were destroyed. One wintering person died.  But people were able to bring life under control and overcome all difficulties.  Not only that, but they didn't leave the station, staying through the winter.  They did scientific work and fought for the life of the station.
This tale of hardiness was written about in Комсомольская правда' (June 1983)
Personally, I do not have reliable information about this story.  I wish that eyewitnesses, biographers or real participants in the events would in describe them in detail. This is a worthy story.
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So... does anybody know anything about this?  It would be a fine thing to mention, I think. Esn 07:14, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't know about this. But Not only that, but they didn't leave the station, staying through the winter is a bit odd: AFAIK its impossible to leave there during winter William M. Connolley 08:30, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is possible to leave the station. You have to travel by land though.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.57.12.37 (talk) 14:27, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

text: http://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/5790/ Good article (in russian) about 1982 fire and winter. Ходок (talk) 14:27, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Here is a Google translation of that article. Easier than struggling with the Russian for people like me (someday, I will be fluent! maybe... ). --Seattle Skier (talk) 07:55, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

text: Can't open this blog on chess.com. I recently saw this hearsay on reddit (linked to some canadian article without sources or details) and no details popped up, though some people seem to like this (probably made up) story. Story appears in russian too, but just as cited above: no details. Probably some good links with details are required to believe it: this is not ancient history and should be documented.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.102.135.54 (talk) 05:30, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Something like heroism

message: I don't know about this; our records  say the min was "only" -84.4 William M. Connolley 08:30, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Min T 

message: I reverted . The edit comment is confusing two situations. In a storm, air from above the boundary layer will likely be mixed down and warm the surface. But going *along* the surface (in particular, upwards) the air will cool for the std cooling-with-height reasons William M. Connolley (talk) 09:21, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  T with height 

message: Should we mention Roy Spencer's ideas about what the Vostok ice core shows?
* ... it has often been noted that the Vostok CO2 record lags the temperature record by an average of 800 years, which is somewhat of a problem for Hansen’s theory. After all, if CO2 “took over” as the main driver of temperature, why do the CO2 changes tend to come after the temperature changes?
Spencer seems to think that that the data at Vostok disprove the AGW theory. --Uncle Ed (talk) 16:17, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I know I shouldn't be commenting like this on talk pages, but don't the temperature changes mean that the oceans can absorb more/less atmospheric CO2, a process which takes time and thus "lags"? Jolly Ω Janner 17:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Spencer's fringe views have been further shown incorrect by recent published papers, we should not give his views undue weight. . dave souza, talk 09:16, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Ice core

message: The Climate of Antarctica had outdated info on lowest temperatures, with dates modified by an anon IP and no source. I've pinched a bit from this article to update it, could someone with more knowledge please review the situation and revise that article accordingly, . dave souza, talk 09:16, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Climate of Antarctica

message: No mention of annual snowfall, which has affected bases such as Halley and Amundsen–Scott. - Rod57 (talk) 05:03, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  What annual snowfall 

message: Someone needs to figure out how to incorporate this into the article. So far changes have been made in the table reflecting the change but no mention in the article, or about exactly what the new data showed. 50.80.153.173 (talk) 00:38, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Article already mentions most probably there are colder temperatures that exist somewhere near Vostok Station where altitude is a bit higher. This new -93.2°C record is a satellite measurement of a spot somewhere in Antarctica. Yes, it is the lowest temperature found on Earth, but no, it was not measured at Vostok Station, and notably it was not measured with thermometers. Akseli9 (talk) 06:55, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: New World Low Record

message: First off, my reasoning for capitalising the initial letter of 'station' in the history station (which begins with the pair of words "Vostok station") is that the first letters of every word in a proper noun (excluding conjunctions, prepositions, and articles) is to be capitalised, at least per my understanding of English grammar.
Second, my edits to the climate section were removing opinion statements.  I removed the wording "extremely cold" because it is an opinion.  Someone from Neptune or Pluto could see that and change it, believing that -89°C is hot.  Even someone from Mars or Jupiter could disagree.
The other wording I removed was "extremely dry" because someone who has lived in the Atacama Desert his whole life may find the precipitation in Vostok to be rather plentiful.
I do not believe my edits were vandalism and ask for this matter to be discussed.
Thank you,
Bad Weather 2014 My work • What's wrong? 23:06, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Climate and capitalisation (my edit on 18 December 2015)

message: Why does the building in the photo have an American flag?  Isn't Vostok Station Russian?
174.92.82.240 (talk) 05:46, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps American and French scientists were visiting on that day, so the flags of their nations were flown as a gesture of welcome? Just a guess, given that the photo was taken by an employee of the U.S. National Science Foundation (click the pic for details). Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 02:13, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo With American Flag

message: Is there any reason that the Australian claim to the territory is relevant?  Most countries, including Russia, don't recognize the claim.  I'm going to remove it if nobody objects.  Sowelilitokiemu (talk) 04:13, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Australia

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message: What's with the American and French flags in the photos of this Russian base?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.243.150.63 (talk) 14:27, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
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message: It is stated in the article that "Vostok has the highest sunshine total for any calendar month on Earth, at an average of 708.8 hours of sunshine in December, or 22.9 hours daily."
This is, however, not true as Nuorgam in northern Finland experiences the most drastic Midnight Sun, lasting on average from May 16th to July 29th. That is a whopping 74 days of straight sunlight around the clock, 24/7 and equals 1776 hours of sunlight. 
Vostok may be the coldest place on Earth, but the Midnight Sun phenomenon must be accounted for, as it is a yearly occurance in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Siberia and Iceland. Fishcars (talk) 09:43, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sunniest calendar month"