Esperanza Base
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Argentine research station in Antarctica
Key facts
- Country
- Argentina
- Region
- Graham Land Antarctic Peninsula
- Location
- Hope Bay Trinity Peninsula
- Administered by
- Argentine Antarctic Institute (under the supervision of the Argentine National Antarctic Directorate )
- Established
- December 17, 1953 ( 1953-12-17 )
- Named after
- Spanish : Base Esperanza , ("Hope Base")
- Urban
- 0.3744 ha (0.925 acres)
- Elevation
- 25 m (82 ft)
- Un locode
- AQ ESP
- Type
- All-year round
- Period
- Annual
- Status
- Operational
- Activities
- List Limnology Glaciology Seismology Oceanography Geology
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Antarctic research station
- Continent
- Antarctica
- Elevation
- 10
- Operator
- Argentine Antarctic Institute
- Image
- Hope Bay-2016-Trinity Peninsula–Esperanza Station 02.jpg
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- Commons category
- Esperanza Station
- located in/on physical feature
- Trinity Peninsula
- inception
- 1953-00-00
- territory claimed by
- United Kingdom
- described at URL
- www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/zakladna-esperanza
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Encyclopedic overview
Esperanza Base (Spanish: Base Esperanza, 'Hope Base') is a permanent, all-year-round Argentine research station in Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula (in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula). It is the only civilian settlement on the Antarctic mainland (the Chilean Villa Las Estrellas is on the South Shetland Islands). The base's motto is Permanencia, un acto de sacrificio ('Permanence, an act of sacrifice').
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Esperanza Base” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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