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Antarctic Peninsula

Port Lockroy

Port Lockroy is a former British research base on little Goudier Island off the , now a visitor attraction. "Port Lockroy" is also the name of the natural harbour in which the island lies.
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  • Type: Dwelling
  • Description: former research station in Antarctica, now operated as a museum
  • Also known as: “Port Lockroy (Base A) /Brit./” and “Station A”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Butterfly voyages, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Port Lockroy

Latitude of center
-64.8253° or 64° 49′ 31″ south
Longitude of center
-63.4946° or 63° 29′ 40″ west
Inception
February 16th, 1944
Operator
United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust
Open­Street­Map ID
node 452093463
Open­Street­Map feature
office=­research
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­isolated_dwelling
Geo­Names ID
6638621
Wiki­data ID
Q2104764
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Satellite Map

Discover Port Lockroy from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Swedish—“Port Lockroy” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “洛克羅伊港”
  • Dutch: “Port Lockroy”
  • French: “Port Lockroy”
  • German: “Port Lockroy”
  • Hebrew: “פורט לוקרוי”
  • Latvian: “Base A”
  • Latvian: “Bāze A”
  • Latvian: “Port Lockroy Station”
  • Latvian: “Portlokroja”
  • Latvian: “Portlokruā”
  • Macedonian: “Пристаниште Локрој”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Base A”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Goudier Island”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Lockroy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port Lockroy”
  • Norwegian: “Port Lockroy”
  • Polish: “Port Lockroy”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Lockroy”
  • Spanish: “Port Lockroy”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Lockroy”
  • Swedish: “Port Lockroy”

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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 “Port Lockroy”. Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.