Facilities
Various buildings exist some dating back to the early 1950s: Sleeping quarters are in Southern Aurora Donga's(SAD), Garden Cove(Dorm), Hasselborough House and Cumpston's Cottage. A combined mess and kitchen adjoins the doctor's surgery. Storage exists in the main store shed and a large field store shed. The various trades there have their own workshops. A main and standby powerhouse provide electricity and reticulated heating water via a heat exchanger on the diesel generators. Water is sourced from a dam at the top of Gadget's Gully and piped to storage tanks at the station. Sewage is treated before discharge and garbage is sorted for recycling (back in Hobart) or incineration on site. Scientific facilities exist in the Biology Building, Physics Building and Bureau of Meterology buildings. Various outbuildings support instrumentation such as ionosondes, seismometers and upper atmospheric experiments. A tidegauge is installed in Garden Cove.
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