Must-see attractions in Antarctica

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The station’s original accommodation building is preserved as a small museum. It has been restored with authentic radio equipment and portraits of the…

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…

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…

The excellent small museum in San Carlos chronicles rural life, looks at the islands’ natural history, and covers the Falklands War, in particular the…

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…

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…

Visitors are likely to see the Red Shed, which provides kitchen, dining, recreation and living quarters, as well as a hospital and medical suite…

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…

Striking-looking Sail Rock, 11km southwest of Deception Island, is often seen on the horizon while crossing the Bransfield Strait. With its eerie…

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…