Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base

Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base
Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Base
Estação Antártica Comandante Ferraz
—  Research station  —
Location of the station and its nearby refuges
Country  Brazil
Territory Brazilian Antarctica
Established February 6, 1984
Population
 – Total 100
Time zone BRT (UTC-3)
Postal code 20001-971
Website www.mar.mil.br
Comandante Ferraz, the Brazilian Antarctic base.

The Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base (Portuguese: Estação Antártica Comandante Ferraz) is a Brazilian research station located in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

It is named after Navy Commander Luís Antônio de Carvalho Ferraz, a hydrographer and oceanographer who visited Antarctica twice on board British vessels. He was instrumental in persuading his country's government to develop an Antarctic program, and died suddenly in 1982 while representing Brazil at an oceanographic conference in Halifax.

The Comandante Ferraz Base is built on the same site of the old British "Base G", [1] and the weathered wooden structures of the old base make a sharp contrast with the bright green and orange metal structures of the Brazilian base, which was first set up in 1984. Above the base is a small cemetery with five crosses. Three are the graves of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) personnel; the fourth commemorates a BAS base leader lost at sea. The fifth cross is the grave of a Brazilian radio operator sergeant who died of a heart attack at Ferraz in 1990.

See also

  • Brazilian Antarctica

References

  1. ^ BAS Admiralty Bay Station G
  • Antarctica. Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1985.
  • (Portuguese) Castro, Therezinha, Atlas-Texto de Geopolítica do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Capemi Editora, 1982.
  • Campbell, David G. "The Crystal Desert". Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
  • Child, Jack. Antarctica and South American Geopolitics: Frozen Lebensraum. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988.
  • (Portuguese) Menezes, Eurípides, A Antártica e os Desafios do Futuro. Rio de Janeiro: Capemi Editora, 1982.
  • Stewart, Andrew, Antarctica: An Encyclopedia. London: McFarland and Co., 1990 (2 volumes).
  • U.S. National Science Foundation, Geographic Names of the Antarctic, Fred G. Alberts, ed. Washington: NSF, 1980.

External links

v · d · eResearch stations of Antarctica

Coordinates: 62°07′59″S 58°40′01″W / 62.133°S 58.667°W / -62.133; -58.667


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