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Petrel Station Base Petrel | |
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Location of Petrel Base in Antarctica | |
Coordinates: 63°28′41″S56°13′44″W / 63.477947°S 56.228753°W | |
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Location in Antarctica | Dundee Island Joinville Group Graham Land Antarctica |
Established | 22 February 1967 |
Named after | Petrel / Procellariidae |
Elevation | 18 m (59 ft) |
Population (2017) [1] | |
• Summer | 25 |
• Winter | 0 |
Time zone | UTC-3 (ART) |
Type | Seasonal |
Period | Summer |
Status | Operational |
Activities | Geology |
Petrel Skiway | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Private | ||||||||||
Serves | Petrel Base | ||||||||||
Location | Dundee Island | ||||||||||
Time zone | (-4) | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 15 ft / 5 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 63°28′44″S56°13′53″W / 63.478971°S 56.231277°W | ||||||||||
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The Petrel Base (Spanish : Base Petrel) is a non-permanent Argentine scientific station located on Dundee Island, in the Joinville Group, Graham Land which is a part of the Argentinian claim on Antarctica. [3]
The base, which is 18m above sea level, is 37 km from Esperanza Station and over 1300km from port Ushuaia. [4]
Opened as a permanent base on 22 February 1967, it is being used as a temporary base since 1978. [5]
In 2021, the Argentine government announced plans to construct two runways at the base, with a view to reopening it as a permanent base. [5] [6]