Deception
Deception Station is an Argentine antarctic base located at Deception Island, South Shetland Islands.- Type: Dwelling
- Description: Argentinean Antarctic station
- Also known as: “Decepcion Base”, “Decepción Base”, “Deception Base”, and “Deception Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Crater Lake and Uritorco, Mount.
Crater Lake
Lake
Crater Lake is a volcanic crater, now filled with water, lying north-west of Mount Kirkwood on the south side of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
Uritorco, Mount
Peak
Mount Uritorco is a mountain surmounting the southern part of Telefon Ridge on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands. The name appears on an Argentine chart of 1956. This article incorporates public domain material from…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aguirre Cerda Research Station.
Aguirre Cerda Research Station
Locality
Photo: Jorval, Public domain.Deception
- Categories: Antarctic research station, building, research, office, locality, and residential building
- Location: Argentine Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-62.97527° or 62° 58′ 31″ south
Longitude
-60.69769° or 60° 41′ 52″ west
Population
18
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
Inception
January 25th, 1948
Operator
Instituto Antártico Argentino
Open location code
379X28F2+VW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
OpenStreetMap feature
office=research
OpenStreetMap feature
place=isolated_dwelling
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Deception” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Base Decepción”
- Dutch: “Base Decepción”
- French: “base Decepción”
- French: “Base Decepción”
- German: “Decepción-Station”
- Hungarian: “Base Decepción”
- Hungarian: “Decepción kutatóállomás”
- Italian: “Base Decepcion”
- Italian: “Base Decepción”
- Italian: “Base Deception”
- Italian: “Stazione Decepcion”
- Italian: “Stazione Decepción”
- Italian: “Stazione Deception”
- Latvian: “Desepsjona”
- Macedonian: “Дисепшен”
- Macedonian: “Станица за измама (Антартик)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Base Decepción”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Decepción (forskningsstasjon)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Base Decepción”
- Norwegian: “Decepción”
- Polish: “Decepción”
- Portuguese: “Base Decepción”
- Spanish: “Base Antartica Decepcion”
- Spanish: “Base Antártica Decepción”
- Spanish: “Base decepcion”
- Spanish: “Base Decepcion”
- Spanish: “Base decepción”
- Spanish: “Base Decepción”
- Spanish: “Decepción”
- Swedish: “Decepción”
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