Brazil inaugurated a brand new state-of-the-art research station in Antarctica this week.

It took eight years and an investment of almost 100 million dollars to build Brazil's new research station, after the old one was destroyed in a fire in 2012.

This Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station is entirely new and built by the Chinese company CEIEC, chosen through an international bidding process. 

The new base was designed to have maximum energy and environmental efficiency and to withstand earthquakes and winds of up to 125 miles per hour.