Uapishka research station - Canada

The Station is located at the hearth of the Boreal forest (large homogeneous black spruce forests, where caribous, black bears, wolves and all typical animals from the boreal could be encountered), in the largest protected natural area of this type in Quebec, within the traditional ancestral territory (Nitassinan) of the Pessamit Innus and a territory designated by UNESCO. As well, the Station is built right on the shore of the Manicouagan lake, formed about 214 million years ago by the impact of a major meteorite. With a diameter of about 100 kilometers, the Manicouagan Astrobleme is the fourth largest crater in the world.