Melchior
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jorval, Public domain.
- Type: Dwelling
- Description: antarctic station in Argentina
- Also known as: “Base Melchior” and “Melchior Base”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gamma Island and Kappa Island.
Gamma Island
Island
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
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.
Alpha Island
Islet
Alpha Island, also known as Isla Huidobro, is a small island lying between Epsilon Island and Delta Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago.
Melchior
- Categories: Antarctic research station, research, office, locality, residential building, and building
- Location: Argentine Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, South America
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Latitude
-64.32611° or 64° 19′ 34″ southLongitude
-62.97725° or 62° 58′ 38″ westPopulation
12Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Inception
March 31st, 1947Operator
Instituto Antártico ArgentinoOpen location code
377VM2FF+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 5324353688OpenStreetMap feature
office=researchOpenStreetMap feature
place=isolated_dwelling
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Melchior” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Base Melchior”
- French: “base Melchior”
- French: “Base Melchior”
- German: “Melchior-Station”
- Hungarian: “Melchior kutatóállomás”
- Italian: “Base Melchior”
- Italian: “Stazione Melchior”
- Latvian: “Base Antártica Melchior”
- Latvian: “Base Melchior”
- Latvian: “Destacamento Naval Melchior”
- Latvian: “Melhiora”
- Latvian: “Melhioras kara flotes bāze”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Base Melchior”
- Polish: “Melchior”
- Spanish: “Base Antartica Melchior”
- Spanish: “Base Antártica Melchior”
- Spanish: “Base Melchior”
- Spanish: “Destacamento Naval Melchior”
- Spanish: “Estación Melchior”
- Swedish: “Melchior”
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