It is located on the approximately 200 metres (660 ft) thick Ekström Ice Shelf several kilometres south of Neumayer Station II.

[4] After almost ten years of work on the project, beginning in October 1999, including conception, environmental impact assessment, planning and construction phases, regular operation of the station began on 20 February 2009.

[5] The station was constructed 6 m (20 ft) above ground on a temporary two-level platform, and it now rests on 16 hydraulic columns set on a solid snow surface.

Through an annual lifting procedure of 80 to 100 cm (31 to 39 in) it is expected to prevent new snow from causing the platform to sink.

The station runs all year round and includes 210 m2 (2,300 sq ft) of laboratory surface, divided into 12 compartments.

[1] All inner rooms of the platform are built as self-contained units, some of which have aligned connecting passages, depending on their size.

[7] By mid-January 2009, the exterior work on the station was completed, so that further improvement to the 99 interior containers[7] could continue unaffected by the weather.

The station has about 20 snowcats (some with extra passenger cabins, tillers, cranes, foldable winches, front shovels, buckets, and plow blades) in total.

They are mainly used by researchers as storerooms logistics containers, and for transport (pulling people on the sledge with a Ski-Doo).

A kayak is mainly used by researchers for transporting the multi-frequency EM equipment by attaching it to and pulling it behind a snow mobile.

The ramp is equipped with a lid elevated up by two inverted V-shaped objects opposite of each other on the ground that tightly seals the hole when no vehicles are entering or exiting the station's garage.

The snowmelt has a large retractable metal lid that can glide into the surface for snow to enter the hole.

A flight of stairs in a cabin with a door in the garage, as well as at the ground level, is for the researchers to access the building.

In the winter, it is not shielded from the cold air masses of the interior, and as a consequence, on average the temperature drops to or below −40 °C (−40 °F) 10.3 times per year.