Professor Julio Escudero base
Professor Julio Escudero Base is a permanent Chilean Antarctic research base. It is located on King George Island just next to Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva and within the civilian settlement of Villa Las Estrellas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Scientific research base
- Description: Antarctic Station
- Also known as: “Escudero Base”, “Escudero Station”, “Profesor Julio Escudero Base”, and “Professor Julio Escudero base (Chile)”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chapel of Saint Mary Queen of Peace and Holy Trinity Church.
Chapel of Saint Mary Queen of Peace
Church
Photo: Carlos78chile, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St. Mary Queen of Peace Chapel is a Catholic chapel located in Villa Las Estrellas, in the Chilean Antarctic Territory, which includes in the commune of Antártica, within the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, about 1580 km from Punta Arenas. Chapel of Saint Mary Queen of Peace is situated 690 metres northeast of Professor Julio Escudero base.
Holy Trinity Church
Church
Photo: ArJuna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holy Trinity Church is a small Russian Orthodox church on King George Island near Bellingshausen Station, a Russian research station in Antarctica. It is one of the eight churches on Antarctica and the southernmost Eastern Orthodox church in the world. Holy Trinity Church is situated 1¼ km northeast of Professor Julio Escudero base.
Teniente R. Marsh Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Martin Airport is on King George Island, part of Chile's Antártica commune in Antarctica, and is the northernmost airport in the continent.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villa Las Estrellas and President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base.
Villa Las Estrellas
Photo: SnowSwan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Villa Las Estrellas is a Chilean civilian settlement on King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula. It consists of some dozen prefabs but is a vital service hub for all the bases on the island.
President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base
Neighborhood
Photo: Mefisto29, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of Chile. It is located at Fildes Peninsula, an ice-free area, in front of Fildes Bay, at the west end of King George Island, South Shetland Islands.
Professor Julio Escudero base
- Category: Antarctic research station
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Professor Julio Escudero base” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Professor Julio Escudero base”
- Chinese: “胡里奥·埃斯库德罗教授站”
- Chinese: “胡里奧·埃斯庫德羅教授站”
- Dutch: “Profesor Julio Escudero Base”
- French: “base Profesor Julio Escudero”
- French: “Base Profesor Julio Escudero”
- Italian: “Base Escudero”
- Italian: “Base Julio Escudero”
- Italian: “Base professor Julio Escudero”
- Italian: “Stazione Escudero”
- Italian: “Stazione Julio Escudero”
- Italian: “Stazione Professor Escudero”
- Italian: “Stazione Professor Julio Escudero”
- Latvian: “Hulioeskudero”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Escudero”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Profesor Julio Escudero-basen”
- Norwegian: “Base Profesor Julio Escudero”
- Norwegian: “Julio Escudero-basen (Chile)”
- Norwegian: “Julio Escudero-basen”
- Polish: “Base Profesor Julio Escudero”
- Polish: “Escudero”
- Portuguese: “Base Professor Julio Escudero”
- Spanish: “Base Escudero”
- Spanish: “Base Profesor Julio Escudero”
- Swedish: “Escudero”
- Ukrainian: “Професор Хуліо Ескудеро”
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