Amundsen-Scott Research Station (Civ6)

Amundsen-Scott Research Station
World wonder of the Atomic Era
Introduced in Rise and Fall
Unlocked by	Cold War
Production cost	1620
Effects
+5 Great Scientist points per turn +20% Science and 10% Production in all cities. Any city that owns 5 Snow or Snow Hills tiles within 3 tiles of its City Center receives 40% Science and 20% Production.

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 "For scientific leadership, give me Scott; for swift and efficient travel, Amundsen."
– Sir Raymond Priestley

The Amundsen-Scott Research Station is an Atomic Era Wonder in Civilization VI: Rise and Fall. It must be built on Snow or Snow Hills next to a Campus with a Research Lab.

In the Gathering Storm expansion, the Amundsen-Scott Research Station is unlocked with Rapid Deployment.

• Effects:
  • +5 Great Scientist points per turn
  • +20% Science and 10% Production in all cities.
  • Any city that owns 5 Snow or Snow Hills tiles within 3 tiles of its City Center receives +40% Science and +20% Production instead.

Strategy

The bonuses the Amundsen-Scott Research Station provides are very powerful and affect the owner's entire empire, and will help tremendously when pursuing a Science Victory. Building it is a struggle, but some forward planning makes it easier. Especially on larger maps, settling and growing a city which will eventually cover at least one Snow tile is a little difficult since most of the workable tiles will be Tundra, and if you have 5 Snow tiles in a city for the full bonus the city isn't going to be very productive.

The easiest way to construct this wonder is with a Great Engineer like Gustave Eiffel or Shah Jahan. If you miss out on them, however, you should be able to build the Amundsen-Scott Research Station within an acceptable number of turns by boosting the city's Production through Gold purchases and Trade Routes. Assigning Reyna with Contractor or Moksha with Divine Architect (in Gathering Storm) to the city in which you want to build this wonder is also highly recommended, since these Governors allow you to buy your Campus, Industrial Zone, and Harbor outright.

The Amundsen-Scott Research Station is easier to build when playing as Russia or after building St. Basil's Cathedral, both of which increase the Production bonuses of Tundra tiles. Canada also has a slightly easier time building this wonder, as they can construct Farms on Tundra tiles and mitigate the disadvantage of having a city on less-than-ideal terrain, and at least one of their Tundra cities should be adjacent to Snow regions. If a city already has St. Basil's Cathedral, then it should be well-established by the Atomic Era and able to build the Amundsen-Scott Research Station fairly quickly.

Civilopedia entry

Scientists studying the South Pole brave its extreme conditions at the Amundsen-Scott Research Station. The station bears the names of Antarctic explorers Captain Robert Scott (the explorer who discovered the plateau where the South Pole is located) and Roald Amundsen (the first man to reach the South Pole—beating Scott’s expedition by 34 days). The original station, completed by the United States in 1957, became party to the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. All scientists working at the research station swore to freely explore and share scientific endeavors.

Good intentions aside, the South Pole is no easy place to settle. The United States abandoned the station by 1975, whereupon it was buried under 30 feet of snow, excavated in 2010, and subsequently demolished with explosives. The new and improved Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (established in 1999) features an Atmospheric Research Observatory, a section for studying astrophysics, and most importantly, internet access.

Gallery

The Amundsen-Scott Research Station completed

The Amundsen-Scott Research Station, as seen in-game

Videos

Civilization VI- Rise and Fall - Amundsen-Scott Research Station (Wonder Movies)