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…
Must-see attractions in Antarctica
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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Visitors are likely to see the Red Shed, which provides kitchen, dining, recreation and living quarters, as well as a hospital and medical suite…
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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…
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Striking-looking Sail Rock, 11km southwest of Deception Island, is often seen on the horizon while crossing the Bransfield Strait. With its eerie…
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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…
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One of the few surviving buildings from ‘old’ Mawson is the small wooden Weddell Hut, the second building constructed at the station. Also known as ‘the…
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About 75m west of the Discovery hut, an oak cross stands as an enduring memorial to Able Seaman George T Vince, who fell to his death over an ice cliff…
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Near San Carlos Water are the ruins of the Ajax Bay Refrigeration Plant, a madcap 1950s Colonial Development Corporation project that failed because…
Antarctica
Erected in November 1913, this memorial atop Azimuth Hill, northwest of the Main Hut, pays tribute to Xavier Mertz and Belgrave Ninnis.
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China opened its fourth station, called Taishan, in 2014. The space-age pod sits at 2621m and houses up to 20 people in summer.
Pedro Vicente Maldonado Station
Antarctica
Ecuador’s bright-red Pedro Vicente Maldonado station, completed in 1998, operates in summer only, and accommodates 22 people.
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East of Mawson's Main Hut, this building was used as shelter while star-sighting to determine Cape Denison’s exact position.
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Stanley's cemetery is fronted by the Cross of Sacrifice, a memorial to islanders who lost their lives in WWI and WWII.
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In April 2012, India opened Bharati Station, housing up to 25 people on a promontory near the Broknes Peninsula.
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The station's small cemetery contains the graves of men who died in 1963, 1972 and 1974.
Antarctic Peninsula
The Netherlands has a research laboratory near Rothera Station on Adelaide Island.
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
This white church with green trim was built from a Victorian prefab kit in 1892.
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Stanley's Catholic church offers masses open to all.
