Orcadas
Orcadas is a hamlet in Islas del Atlántico Sur, Tierra del Fuego Province and has about 17 residents.Places of Interest
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
- Type: Hamlet with 17 residents
- Also known as: “Base Antártica Orcadas”, “Destacamento Naval Orcadas”, “Orcadas Base”, and “奥尔卡达斯站”
- Categories: research, aerodrome, office, and locality
- Location: Islas del Atlántico Sur, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-60.73807° or 60° 44′ 17″ south
Longitude
-44.73769° or 44° 44′ 16″ west
Population
17
Elevation
147 metres (482 feet)
Inception
April 1st, 1903
Operator
Argentina
United Nations Location Code
AQ ORC
Open location code
38FQ7766+QW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
OpenStreetMap feature
office=research
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to Turkish—“Orcadas” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Stacio Orcadas”
- French: “Base antarctique Orcadas”
- French: “Base Antarctique Orcadas”
- German: “Orcadas-Station”
- Greek: “Βάση Ορκάδας”
- Hungarian: “Orcadas kutatóállomás”
- Indonesian: “Pangkalan Orkadas”
- Italian: “Distaccamento navale Orcadas”
- Korean: “오르카다스 기지”
- Latvian: “Orkadasa”
- Macedonian: “База Оркадас”
- Macedonian: “Оркадас”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orcadas-Basen”
- Portuguese: “Base Orcadas”
- Romanian: “Baza Orcadas”
- Spanish: “Base Orcadas”
- Turkish: “Orcadas Üssü”
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