Maldonado Base
Maldonado Station | |
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| Pedro Vincente Maldonado | |
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| Country | File:Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador |
| Location in Antarctica | Greenwich Island South Shetland Islands Antarctica |
| Administered by | Instituto Antártico Ecuatoriano INAE |
| Established | 2 March 1990 |
| Elevation | 10 m (33 ft) |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
| • Summer | 32 |
| • Winter | 0 |
| Type | Seasonal |
| Period | Summer |
| Status | Operational |
| Activities | List
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| Website | Instituto Antartico Ecuatoriano |
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Maldonado Base, also Pedro Vicente Maldonado Base, is the Ecuadorian Antarctic research base situated at Guayaquil Bay, Greenwich Island. It is located in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It opened in 1990. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers operating from nearby Clothier Harbour.
The base is named after the Spanish-American astronomer, topographer, and geographer Pedro Vicente Maldonado (1704–1748) born in Riobamba, present Ecuador.
There is a lighthouse near the base.[2]
Location
[edit | edit source]The base is located at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. which is 560 m south-southwest of Orión Point, 990 m southwest of Spark Point, 1.16 km north-northwest of Serrano Point and 2.56 km east-southeast of Agüedo Point (detailed Ecuadorian mapping in 2007, Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
Maps
[edit | edit source]- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (First edition 2009. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
- Essy Santana and Jean Dumont. Granulometry of pebble beach ridges in Fort Williams Point, Greenwich Island, Antarctic Peninsula; a possible result from Holocene climate fluctuations. U.S. Geological Survey and The National Academies; USGS OF-2007-1047, Short Research Paper 027, 2007.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Instituto Antartico Ecuatoriano Archived 2020-01-26 at the Wayback Machine
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