Melchior /Arg./

Melchior /Arg./ is in Antarctica. Melchior /Arg./ is situated nearby to Gamma Island, as well as near the islet Kappa Island.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Melchior and Gamma Island.

Melchior

Dwelling

Photo: Jorval, Public domain.

Melchior Base is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station. It is located on Gamma Island, Melchior Islands, Dallmann Bay, in Palmer Archipelago on Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctic Peninsula. Melchior is situated 100 metres north of Melchior /Arg./.

Gamma Island is an island, 1.6 kilometres long, which marks the southwestern extremity of the Melchior Islands in the Palmer Archipelago. This island was first roughly charted and named "Ile Gouts" by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but that name has not survived in usage.

Kappa Island

Islet

Kappa Island is an island, nearly 0.5 nautical miles long, lying immediately south of Beta Island and close east of the Theta Islands in the Melchior Islands of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.

Melchior /Arg./

Location: Antarctica
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Latitude

-64.32704° or 64° 19′ 37″ south

Longitude

-62.97758° or 62° 58′ 39″ west

Open location code

377VM2FC+5X

GeoNames ID

6639544

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