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Esperanza Base

Esperanza Base is an Argentine research base in Hope Bay at the tip of the . Part of it is designated as Fortín Sargento Cabral, a year-round civilian settlement similar to the Chilean settlement of .
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  • Type: Neighborhood
  • Description: Argentine research station in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Esperanza Station”

Esperanza Base

Latitude of center
-63.3981° or 63° 23′ 53″ south
Longitude of center
-56.9964° or 56° 59′ 47″ west
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
Inception
December 17th, 1952
Operator
Instituto Antártico Argentino
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2011467417
Open­Street­Map feature
office=­research
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Wiki­data ID
Q1368174
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Esperanza Base” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Esperanza-basis”
  • Arabic: “قاعدة ايسبيرانزا”
  • Armenian: “Էսպերնասա կայան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Esperansa stansiyası”
  • Basque: “Esperanza basea”
  • Cebuano: “Esperanza Base”
  • Chinese: “埃斯佩兰萨站”
  • Chinese: “埃斯佩蘭薩基地”
  • Chinese: “埃斯佩蘭薩站”
  • Czech: “Esperanza”
  • Czech: “Stanice Esperanza”
  • Dutch: “Esperanza Basis”
  • Esperanto: “Bazo Esperanza”
  • Finnish: “Base Esperanza”
  • Finnish: “Esperanza Base”
  • French: “base antarctique Esperanza”
  • French: “Base antarctique esperanza”
  • French: “Base antarctique Esperanza”
  • French: “Base Antarctique Esperanza”
  • French: “Base Esperanza”
  • German: “Esperanza-Station”
  • Greek: “Βάση Εσπεράνζα”
  • Greek: “Βάση Εσπεράνσα”
  • Hebrew: “בסיס אספרנסה”
  • Hungarian: “Esperanza kutatóállomás”
  • Indonesian: “Pangkalan Esperanza”
  • Italian: “Base Esperanza”
  • Italian: “Stazione Esperanza”
  • Japanese: “エスペランサ基地”
  • Korean: “에스페란사 기지”
  • Latvian: “Esperansa”
  • Lithuanian: “Esperansos bazė”
  • Macedonian: “База Есперанца”
  • Malay: “Pangkalan Esperanza”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Esperanza (forskningsstasjon)”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Esperanza-basen”
  • Norwegian: “Base Esperanza”
  • Polish: “Base Esperanza”
  • Polish: “Esperanza”
  • Portuguese: “Base Esperanza”
  • Portuguese: “Esperanza (base)”
  • Romanian: “Baza Esperanza”
  • Russian: “Эсперанса (станция)”
  • Russian: “Эсперанса”
  • Spanish: “Base Antartica Esperanza”
  • Spanish: “Base antártica Esperanza”
  • Spanish: “Base Antártica Esperanza”
  • Spanish: “Base esperanza”
  • Spanish: “Base Esperanza”
  • Swedish: “Esperanza”
  • Turkish: “Esperanza Üssü”
  • Ukrainian: “Есперанса”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Esperanza Base”. Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0.