Villa Las Estrellas

Villa Las Estrellas is a civilian settlement on King George Island, the largest of the off the Antarctic Peninsula. It consists of some dozen prefabs but is a vital service hub for all the bases on the island.
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  • Type: Village with 80 residents
  • Description: settlement owned by Chile in Antarctica
  • Also known as: “The Stars Village”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Teniente R. Marsh Airport and Holy Trinity Church.

Aerodrome
Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Martin Airport is on King George Island, part of 's Antártica commune in , and is the northernmost airport in the continent.

Church
Photo: ArJuna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small Russian Orthodox church on King George Island near , a research station in Antarctica. It is one of the eight churches on Antarctica and the southernmost Eastern Orthodox church in the world.

Lake
Lake Kitezh is a lake 0.3 nautical miles long near the center of , , in the . The largest of many lakes on the peninsula, it has been used as a reservoir by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition and the Rodolfo Marsh Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include President Eduardo Frei Montalva Base.

Neighborhood
Photo: Mefisto29, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva is the most important Antarctic base of . It is located at , an ice-free area, in front of , at the west end of , .

Villa Las Estrellas

Latitude
-62.2004° or 62° 12′ 2″ south
Longitude
-58.9654° or 58° 57′ 55″ west
Population
80
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Inception
April 9th, 1984
IATA airport code
TNM
United Nations Location Code
AQ TNM
Open location code
3893Q2XM+RV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 446987858
Open­Street­Map feature
office=­research
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
9072762
Wiki­data ID
Q2745332
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Villa Las Estrellas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيلا لاس إستريلاس”
  • Arabic: “فيلا لاس استريلاس”
  • Basque: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Bavarian: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Catalan: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Chinese: “拉斯埃斯特雷亚斯镇”
  • Chinese: “拉斯埃斯特雷亞斯鎮”
  • Dutch: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيلا لاس استريلاس”
  • French: “villa Las Estrellas”
  • French: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • German: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Greek: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Greek: “Βίλα Λας Εστρέγιας”
  • Indonesian: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Italian: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Japanese: “ビジャ・ラス・エストレージャス”
  • Latin: “oppidum Stellae”
  • Latin: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Latvian: “Vilja las Estreljasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Vilja Las Estreljasas”
  • Macedonian: “Виља Лас Естрељас”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Norwegian: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Polish: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Portuguese: “Vila das Estrelas”
  • Portuguese: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Russian: “Вилья-лас-Эстрельяс”
  • Slovenian: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Spanish: “Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva”
  • Spanish: “Eduardo Frei”
  • Spanish: “Villa Las Estrellas & Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva”
  • Spanish: “Villa Las Estrellas”
  • Swedish: “Villa las Estrellas”
  • Ukrainian: “Вілья-лас-Естрельяс”
  • Urdu: “ولا لاس استریلاس”

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