Antarctic Peninsula
Built in 1947 as the first part of what would later become Faraday Base, this protected historic site, restored in the late 1990s by the British Antarctic…
Must-see attractions in Antarctica
Antarctica
In 1946–47 Britain established a meteorological station, Base H, at Factory Cove, site of Signy Island's old whaling station. Its successor, Signy…
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Open whenever tour ships are in port, this museum contains artifacts from everyday life, natural-history specimens and a fine collection relating to the…
Antarctica
Dome A was first visited in January 2005, by a Chinese team that installed an automatic weather station. In 2009 China opened its third Antarctic outpost,…
Antarctica
Chile’s Capitán Arturo Prat station, a collection of orange buildings on Discovery Bay on Greenwich Island's northern coast, was opened in 1947 as…
Antarctica
Murray Monolith, sometimes described as resembling an enormous loaf of bread, rises from the sea at an angle of more than 70 degrees to a height of 243m…
Ruperto Elichiribehety Station
Antarctic Peninsula
On the hill about 500m from Esperanza is Trinity House, a hut remaining from Base D, built by the UK in 1944–45 and closed in 1963. It was transferred to…
Antarctica
Scullin Monolith, 160km east of Mawson, harbors Antarctica’s highest concentration of breeding Antarctic petrels (160,000 pairs). Some 50,000 pairs of…
Antarctica
Eco-Nelson is a private base run by Czech Jaroslav Pavlíček. Three plywood buildings, opened in 1989, are staffed almost continuously with between one and…
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
This museum incorporates the remains of a rough stone hut built by Captain Barnard, marooned here after an encounter with the crew of a shipwrecked…
King George Island
Argentina built Carlini station at Potter Cove in 1953. It was formerly named Jubany but was renamed in 2012 after biologist Alejandro Carlini. Backed by…
Stanley Cemetery & Memorial Wood
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
At the eastern end of Ross Rd, Stanley Cemetery holds among its graves the tombstones of three young Whitingtons, children of an unsuccessful 19th-century…
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Perhaps Stanley’s most photographed landmark, rambling Government House has been home to London-appointed governors since 1845 and was briefly occupied by…
Antarctica
China’s Zhongshan Station, founded in 1989, accommodates about 60 people in summer and 22 winterovers. A quiet room in Zhongshan features a bust of Sun…
1914 Battle of the Falklands Memorial
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
This obelisk, just past Government House, commemorates a WWI naval engagement. On December 8, 1914, nine British ships, refueling in Stanley, quickly…
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
The immaculate British War Cemetery is close to the edge of San Carlos Water. A total of 252 British servicemen died during the Falklands conflict; the…
Antarctica
Romania’s first Antarctic base, summer-only Law-Racoviţă, was originally an Australian base named for Phillip Law and established in 1986–87. It was…
Antarctica
Russia’s Progress base opened in 1989 and accommodates 80 people in summer, 20 in winter. Earlier Progress bases nearby are now abandoned. Two Caterpillar…
Antarctica
During the site’s occupation by Shackleton’s Ross Sea party, three members perished while returning from a depot-laying trip. Reverend Arnold Spencer…
Magnetograph House & Magnetic Absolute Hut
Antarctica
Cape Denison’s location close to the South Magnetic Pole makes it an ideal place to observe Earth’s magnetic field. Magnetograph House and Magnetic…
Antarctic Peninsula
The UK’s Base E, established in 1945–46 and used until 1975, consists of two wooden huts and some steel-mesh dog pens. The larger, two-story hut served as…
King George Island
China’s Great Wall station was established in 1985 and accommodates up to 80 people; recent winter crews have numbered about 12. During the 1987–88 season…
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
In front of the Secretariat on Ross Rd, this wall carries the names of the 252 British military personnel and three Falklands civilians who died in the…
Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel
Antarctic Peninsula
Britain established Base T at the southwest tip of Adelaide Island in 1961, but closed it in 1977 when the skiway deteriorated, and moved operations to…
Antarctica
Just east of Hannah Point lies Spain’s Juan Carlos Primero station, a summer-only base, established in 1987–88 and accommodating up to 50 people. It has…
Antarctica
Nine kilometres inland, Korea's year-round Jang Bogo Base opened in 2014 and houses 62 people at its summer peak. It's named after a historic Korean…
Antarctica
A large emperor-penguin colony was sighted in late 1994 among the maze of icebergs grounded on offshore Petersen Bank. Despite more than 40 years of…
King George Island
Uruguay’s Artigas Station, established in 1984, accommodates 14 in winter and 70 in summer. Named for Uruguay’s national hero, José Gervasio Artigas, an…
Antarctica
Bulgaria’s summer-only St Kliment Ohridski station accommodates 22 people. Built in 1988, it operated for only a year, and then reopened in 1993. It’s…
Antarctica
Almost nothing remains of the hut built by Victor Campbell, a member of Scott’s Terra Nova expedition of 1911–14. What little does remain lies east of…
Original Accommodation Building
Antarctica
The station’s original accommodation building is preserved as a small museum. It has been restored with authentic radio equipment and portraits of the…
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Beached in Settlement Harbour lies Protector, built in Nova Scotia in the late 1930s and early 1940s as a minesweeper for the Canadian navy. She was…
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
On the small grassy square next to Christ Church Cathedral, the Whalebone Arch was built in 1933 to commemorate the centenary of British rule in the…
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
The excellent small museum in San Carlos chronicles rural life, looks at the islands’ natural history, and covers the Falklands War, in particular the…
King George Island
South Korea named its King Sejong station, at Marian Cove close to Maxwell Bay, after a 15th-century Korean king who was also a scientist and inventor…
Antarctica
Lake Concordia, 50km long and 30km wide, lies beneath 4150m of ice about 100km north of Dome C. It is Antarctica’s second-largest subglacial lake, after…
Antarctica
Visitors are likely to see the Red Shed, which provides kitchen, dining, recreation and living quarters, as well as a hospital and medical suite…
Antarctica
Greenpeace had a year-round base at Cape Evans between 1987 and 1992. It was dismantled and removed in 1991–92. A rather difficult to locate Greenpeace…
Antarctica
Striking-looking Sail Rock, 11km southwest of Deception Island, is often seen on the horizon while crossing the Bransfield Strait. With its eerie…
Antarctica
Two anchors from the Aurora, the ship from the Ross Sea party of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition, remain embedded in sand on Home Beach, one…
