Astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured from ISS Antarctica. It it near the tip of Antarctic Peninsula.

Credit: Soichi Noguchi, JAXA, NASA

Showa Station is a Japanese permanent research station on East Ongul Island in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Built in 1957, Showa Station is named for the era in the Japanese calendar during which it was established, the Shōwa period. Showa Station serves as a research outpost for astronomy, meteorology, biology and earth sciences. It comprises over 60 separate buildings, large and small, including a 3-storey administration building, living quarters, power plant, sewage treatment facility, environmental science building, observatory, data processing facility, satellite building, ionospheric station, incinerator, earth science building, and radiosonde station. Also present are fuel tanks, water storage, solar panels, a heliport, water retention dam, and radio transmitter. The climate is classified as an Ice cap climate (Köppen: EF), since there are no months where the average temperature exceeds 0.0C.

The local scenery on the ground is as follows.

Credit: Wikipedia

Reference: Soichi Noguchi’s Tweet
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