Saturday, January 14, 2012

A quick tour of Davis station

The fuel farm.

 Fuel farm from the side. All these tanks are currently being repainted.

 New living quarter's and main accommodation.
 From front to back. Emergency power house, old living quarters now having interior being demolished, then follow the link that joins on to the main living quarter's, with the new living quarters that is dark green on the right. The yellow building is operations.

 Rear view of operation building taken from the fuel farm.

 The Anaresat enclosure for the satellite dish.

 Summer accommodation building that has room for 36.

Summer accommodation on left then one of two 600,000 litre water tanks and main power house.

 Emergency vehicle storage that has the fire hagg and equipment. The door to this shed has been designed so it can open in full blizzard conditions.

 The new living quarters and main accommodateation.

 The new boat shed and field store.

 Water tanks, summer accommodation and the tank house that has daily water storage tanks, pumps for domestic and fire fighting water.

 The Lidar building on the left that sends a laser beam way up into the atmosphere and APS Building to the right where the information that is collected is researched.

 The Heliport. Up there with modern technology.

 Our water supply that has to go through a desalination plant. Can only make water  from January till March as it all freezers up.
The pineapple that has been renovated for flight operations.
Have missed a few buildings will capture those one's soon.

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