Orcadas Base
Base Orcadas is an Argentine scientific station in Antarctica, and the oldest of the stations in Antarctica still in operation. It is located on Laurie Island, one of the South Orkney Islands, at 4 meters above sea level and 170 meters from the coastline.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: research station
- Also known as: “Estacion Orcadas”, “Orcadas Base (Argentina)”, and “Orcadas Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Ramsay.
Mount Ramsay
Peak
Mount Ramsay is a peak, 475 m, standing at the west side of Uruguay Cove on the north coast of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Charted by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under Bruce, 1902–04, and named for Allan Ramsay, chief engineer of the expedition ship Scotia, who died on August 6, 1903, and was buried at the foot of the peak.
Orcadas Base
- Category: Antarctic research station
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Orcadas Base” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Orcadas Base”
- Chinese: “奥尔卡达斯站”
- Dutch: “Orcadas Base”
- Esperanto: “Stacio Orcadas”
- Estonian: “Orcadas”
- Estonian: “Orcadase polaarjaam”
- Finnish: “Orcadas”
- French: “base antarctique Orcadas”
- French: “Base antarctique Orcadas”
- German: “Orcadas-Station”
- Greek: “Βάση Ορκάδας”
- Greek: “Σταθμός Ορκάδας”
- Hebrew: “תחנת החיזוי אורקדאס”
- Hungarian: “Orcadas kutatóállomás”
- Indonesian: “Pangkalan Orkadas”
- Italian: “base Orcadas”
- Italian: “Distaccamento navale Orcadas”
- Japanese: “オルカダス基地”
- Korean: “오르카다스 기지”
- Latvian: “Orkadasa”
- Macedonian: “База „Оркадас“”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orcadas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orcadas-basen”
- Norwegian: “Orcadas-basen (Argentina)”
- Norwegian: “Orcadas-basen”
- Norwegian: “Orcadas”
- Polish: “Orcadas”
- Portuguese: “Base Orcadas”
- Romanian: “Baza Orcadas”
- Russian: “Оркадас”
- Spanish: “Base Orcadas”
- Spanish: “Estación Orcadas”
- Swedish: “Orcadas Base”
- Swedish: “Orcadas”
- Turkish: “Orcadas Üssü”
- Ukrainian: “Оркадас”
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