Great Wall

Great Wall is a hamlet in Argentine Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego Province and has about 13 residents. Great Wall is situated nearby to the locality Estación Marítima Antártica, as well as near the neighborhood President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Geologists Island and Clement Hill.

Geologists Island

Islet

Geologists Island is an island, 0.5 kilometres long, lying south of Ardley Island in the entrance of Hydrographers Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands.

Clement Hill

Peak

Clement Hill is a hill rising to 135 m, the highest elevation in southern Fildes Peninsula, 1 nautical mile northwest of Halfthree Point, King George Island, South Shetland Islands.

Diomedea Island is a small island lying in Ardley Cove, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The Soviet Antarctic Expedition called the feature "Ostrov Al'batros" or "Albatross Island" in 1968, but the English form duplicates a name in the Bay of Isles.

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.

Great Wall

Type: Hamlet with 13 residents
Also known as: “Great Wall Station”, “長城南極站”, and “长城南极站”
Categories: research, office, and locality
Location: Argentine Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, South America
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Latitude

-62.21775° or 62° 13′ 4″ south

Longitude

-58.96118° or 58° 57′ 40″ west

Population

Elevation

10 metres (33 feet)

Inception

February 20th, 1985

Operator

中国极地研究中心

United Nations Location Code

AQ GWL

Open location code

3893Q2JQ+WG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9013260590

OpenStreetMap feature

office=research

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13353929

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Great Wall” goes by many names.

Arabic: “محطة السور العظيم”
Azerbaijani: “Böyük sədd”
Chinese: “Chángchéng zhàn”
Chinese: “长城站”
French: “Base antarctique Grande Muraille”
French: “Base Antarctique Grande Muraille”
French: “Grande Muraille”
German: “Große-Mauer-Station”
Italian: “Grande Muraglia”
Italian: “Stazione grande muraglia”
Korean: “Jangseong giji”
Korean: “장성 기지”
Latvian: “Čančena”
Macedonian: “Антарктички Голем Ѕид”
Macedonian: “Станица Антарктички Голем Ѕид”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Great Wall-stasjonen”
Polish: “Wielki Mur”
Portuguese: “Estação Antártica da Grande Muralha”
Spanish: “Base Gran Muralla”
Spanish: “Gran Muralla”
Tamil: “அண்டார்க்டிக்கா பெருஞ்சுவர் ஆய்வுக்கூடம்”
Turkish: “Çin Seddi İstasyonu”
Ukrainian: “Великий мур”
Vietnamese: “Trạm Trường Thành”

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