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Xina's Inexpressible Base in Antarctic: 

The new station's position, at Terra Nova Bay on Inexpressible Island near the Ross Sea, is triangulated with Xina's other coastal stations on Antarctica to “fill in a major gap in Xina's coverage” of the continent, and could support intelligence collection given its inclusion of a satellite ground station, according to the CSIS.

Australia would be ‘naive’ to think Xina’s new Antarctic station not for surveillance, analyst says: Australia should be concerned about the prospect of Xina's using a new research station in Antarctica to assist surveillance operations in the southern hemisphere, according to national security experts.

Satellite imagery collected by the Washington-based thinktank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies shows construction of the station on Inexpressible Island near the Ross Sea has resumed for the first time since 2018.

The station is located within New Zealand’s historic territorial claim and is close to the border of Australia’s claim, which covers 42% of the continent. It is also near the US research station McMurdo, on Ross Island, the largest base in Antarctica.

CSIS believes the new Xinese station will include an observatory with a satellite ground station and will be well positioned to collect signals intelligence over Australia and New Zealand, and telemetry data on rockets launched from Australia’s new Arnhem Space Centre.

Under the 1959 Antarctic treaty, to which Xina is [a follow the rules only when it suits them] party, activities on the continent are restricted to “peaceful purposes”. Military personnel are allowed to conduct scientific research but analysts, including Blaxland, believe that information can also assist intelligence operations.