Dirck Gerritsz
Dirck Gerritsz Laboratory is a Dutch Antarctic research facility on Adelaide Island near Rothera Research Station. It is operated by the Netherlands Polar Programme of the Dutch Research Council and British Antarctic Survey and was opened on 27 January 2013.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Dwelling
- Description: Dutch Antarctic base
- Also known as: “Dirck Gerritsz Laboratory” and “Gerritsz Laboratory”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rothera Air Facility and Killingbeck Island.
Rothera Air Facility
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rothera Air Facility is an airfield serving Rothera Research Station, the British Antarctic Survey logistics centre for the Antarctic and home of well-equipped biological laboratories and facilities for a wide range of research.
Killingbeck Island
Islet
Killingbeck Island is a small island lying east of Rothera Point, off the southeast coast of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1964 for John B.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rothera Research Station.
Rothera Research Station
Hamlet
Photo: Dconnor9, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Rothera Research Station is a British Antarctic Survey base on the Antarctic Peninsula, located at Rothera Point, Adelaide Island. Rothera also serves as the capital of the British Antarctic Territory, a British Overseas Territory.
Dirck Gerritsz
- Categories: administrative territorial entity, research, office, locality, residential building, and building
- Location: Argentine Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-67.57091° or 67° 34′ 15″ southLongitude
-68.12788° or 68° 7′ 40″ westPopulation
10Inception
January 27th, 2013Operator
Netherlands Polar ProgrammeOpen location code
374HCVHC+JROpenStreetMap ID
node 10685774589OpenStreetMap feature
office=researchOpenStreetMap feature
place=isolated_dwellingGeoNames ID
13526695Wikidata ID
Q105605495
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Dirck Gerritsz” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Dirck Gerritsz Laboratorium”
- Dutch: “Dirck Gerritszlaboratorium”
- Spanish: “Laboratorio Dirck Gerritsz”
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