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Base Decepción Location Map for Deception Island Coordinates: 62°59′S 60°41′W / 62.983°S 60.683°W Elevation 8 m (26 ft) Population – Total summer only Base Decepción (English: Deception Station) is an Argentine antarctic base located at Deception Island, South Shetland Islands.
History
The station was founded on January 25, 1948, and was a year-round station until December 1967 when volcanic eruptions forced the evacuation of the base. Since then it is inhabited only during the summer.
The island suffered severe volcanic eruptions in 1967, 1969 and 1970.
In 1950 a seismograph was installed in the base, and in 1951 it also received ionospheric equipment. In 1993 a volcano observatory was opened.
External links
- (Spanish) Base Decepción at Marambio.aq
- Sito ufficiale Direcciòn Nacional del Antartico
- COMNAP Antarctic Facilities
- COMNAP Antarctic Facilities Map
Argentine permanent bases in Antarctica operated by Instituto Antartico Argentino Research stations of Antarctica Year-round Argentina- Belgrano II
- Esperanza
- Jubany
- Marambio
- Orcadas
- San Martín
Europe- Princess Elisabeth (Belgium)
- Concordia / Dumont d'Urville (France)
- Concordia / Mario Zucchelli (Italy)
- Neumayer III (Germany)
- Troll (Norway)
- Arctowski (Poland)
- Halley / Rothera (UK)
- Vernadsky (Ukraine)
RussiaOthers- Comandante Ferraz (Brazil)
- Great Wall / Zhongshan (PR China)
- Maitri (India)
- Dome Fuji / Showa (Japan)
- King Sejong (South Korea)
- Scott (New Zealand)
- SANAE IV (South Africa)
- Artigas (Uruguay)
Summer - Almirante Brown / Cámara / Decepción / Matienzo / Petrel (Argentina)
- St. Kliment Ohridski (Bulgaria)
- Carvajal / González Videla / Risopatrón (Chile)
- Kunlun (China)
- Mendel (Czech Republic)
- Maldonado (Ecuador)
- Aboa (Finland)
- Kohnen (Germany)
- Zucchelli (Italy)
- Dome Fuji (Japan)
- Tor (Norway)
- Jinnah (Pakistan)
- Machu Picchu (Peru)
- Law-Racoviţă (Romania)
- Gabriel de Castilla / Juan Carlos I (Spain)
- Svea / Wasa (Sweden)
- Signy (UK)
- Byrd (United States)
- Elichiribehety (Uruguay)
Closed - Dakshin Gangotri (India)
- Asuka / Mizuho (Japan)
- Hallett / Vanda (New Zealand)
- Komsomolskaya / Leningradskaya / Molodyozhnaya / Russkaya (Soviet Union)
- Ellsworth (USA / Argentina)
- World Park Base (Greenpeace)
Categories:- Outposts of Antarctica
- Argentine Antarctica
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