Hope Bay
Hope Bay (Spanish: Bahía Esperanza) on Trinity Peninsula, is five kilometres (three miles) long and three kilometres (two miles) wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound. It is the site of the Argentinian Antarctic settlement Esperanza Base, established in 1952.
History
Swedish expedition stone hut at Hope Bay | |
1903 (left); 2016 (right) |
The Bay was discovered on January 15, 1902 by the
Hope Bay was also the scene of the Hope Bay incident when the only shots ever fired in anger in Antarctica took place, in 1952. An Argentine shore party fired a machine gun over the heads of a British Antarctic Survey team unloading supplies from the John Biscoe. The Argentines later extended a diplomatic apology, saying that there had been a misunderstanding and that the Argentine military commander on the ground had exceeded his authority. However, the Argentine party was given a hero's welcome upon its return to Argentina.
Research Stations
Elichiribehety Station
Elichiribehety Station better known in English by its Spanish acronym ECARE is an Uruguay summer research station in Antarctica, established by the Uruguayan Antarctic Institute on December 22, 1997 on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Esperanza Base
Station D
The old British Station D was established here in 1945 which was occupied by 13 people in the austral winter. It partially burned on November 8, 1948, with the loss of two lives.[3] A new hut was built on February 4, 1952 in a new place and took the name of Trinity House, it was closed in 1964. On December 8, 1997 the British Antarctic Survey transferred the base to Uruguay, who renamed it Teniente Ruperto Elichiribehety Uruguayan Antarctic Scientific Station (ECARE).[4]
Important Bird Area
The bay has been identified as an
See also
- Andersson Nunatak
- Eddy Col
- Hope Bay incident
- Last Hill
- List of Antarctic research stations
- List of Antarctic field camps
- Scar Hills
- Summit Ridge
References
- ^ Otto Nordenskjöld, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Carl Skottsberg, Carl Anton Larsen (1905). Antarctica: Or, Two Years Amongst the Ice of the South Pole. Google Books: Hurst and Blackett, limited.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "List of Historic Sites and Monuments approved by the ATCM (2012)" (PDF). Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2012. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
- ^ Deaths of FIDS and BAS Staff in Antarctica Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Station D British Antarctic Survey
- ^ "Heywood Island". BirdLife data zone: Important Bird Areas. BirdLife International. 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
Further reading
- Antarctica. Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1985, p. 156-157.
- Child, Jack. Antarctica and South American Geopolitics: Frozen Lebensraum. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988, p. 73.
- Lonely Planet, Antarctica: a Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit, Oakland, CA: Lonely Planet Publications, 1996, 302–304.
- Stewart, Andrew, Antarctica: An Encyclopedia. London: McFarland and Co., 1990 (2 volumes), p. 469.
- U.S. National Science Foundation, Geographic Names of the Antarctic, Fred G. Alberts, ed. Washington: NSF, 1980.
External links
- British Antarctic Survey Hope Bay Station Archived 2005-03-12 at the Wayback Machine