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.
- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: research station
- Also known as: “base Orcadas”, “Estacion Orcadas”, “Orcadas Base (Argentina)”, “Orcadas Station”, and “Σταθμός Ορκάδας”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Mount Ramsay.
Orcadas Base
- Category: Antarctic research station
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-60.73333° or 60° 44′ south
Longitude
-44.73333° or 44° 44′ west
Population
1,040
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
ICAO airport code
SAYO
Open location code
38FQ7788+MM
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“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”
- Hebrew: “תחנת החיזוי אורקדאס”
- Hungarian: “Orcadas kutatóállomás”
- Indonesian: “Pangkalan Orkadas”
- 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”
- Turkish: “Orcadas Üssü”
- Ukrainian: “Оркадас”
- Urdu: “اورکاڈاس بیس”
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