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<localID>Platform_Concordia_Antarctica</localID>
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<version>1</version>
<creationDate>2022-10-09T07:32:47.019Z</creationDate>
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<name>Concordia Research Station, Antarctica</name>
<shortName>Concordia</shortName>
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<description>
Concordia Research Station (https://www.pnra.aq/stazione-concordia), opened in 2005, is a French Italian
research facility that was built 3,233 m (10,607 ft) above sea level at a location called Dome C on the
Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica. It is managed (on the Italian side) by the Italian National Research Program
in Antarctica (PNRA). Among the other scientific equipment, It hosts a GNSS scintillation receiver part of
the INGV ionospheric monitoring network (www.eswua.ingv.it).
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<code><gco:CharacterString>Concordia Station, Antarctica</gco:CharacterString></code>
</MD_Identifier></geographicIdentifier> </EX_GeographicDescription></nameLocation>
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