Adelaide Island
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Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, 139 kilometres long and 37 kilometres wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Ginger I
Adelaide Base, February 1962
Rothera Station in November 2003, looking towards the Antarctic Peninsula
Mackay Point in February 2011.
Rothera Research Station
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The Rothera Research Station is a British Antarctic Survey base on the Antarctic Peninsula, located at Rothera Point, Adelaide Island. Rothera also serves as the capital of the British Antarctic Terri
Adelaide Island
…Survey (FIDS), which later became the British Antarctic Survey. The Base was closed due to an unstable skiway and operations were moved to the new Rothera Research Station during 1976-77; this base remains open. The old BAS base was transferred to the Chilean authorities in 1984, when it was renamed Teniente Luis Carvajal…
Rothera seen from a ship in January 2026
The base in summer, looking southeast
The New Bonner Lab at Rothera Station in November 2003