Northeast Glacier is a steep, heavily

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on the west side of Hemimont Plateau, long and wide at its mouth, which flows from

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westward and then south-westwards into

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between the

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and

Roman Four Promontory Rocky promontory or Punta Cuatro Romano or Roman Figure Four Mountain or Roman Four Rock is a cliff/promontory, rising to 830 m, marking the north side of the entrance to Neny Fjord on the west coast of Graham Land. Roman Four Promontory is locate ...

, on the west coast of

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. Northeast Glacier was first surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under

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. It was resurveyed in 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), who first used the glacier as a sledging route, and so named by them because it lay on the north-eastern side of their base at Stonington Island.

Yapeyú Refuge

Yapeyú Refuge () is an Argentine Antarctic refuge nearby

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from which it depends. It is located on the Fallières Coast in the

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. The refuge was inaugurated on November 4, 1956, as logistical support and is administered by the

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. The shelter is located at 600 meters above the Northeast Glacier. In 1956, during the installation of the San Martín Base, the Argentine Army built three refuges in order to have logistical support from

, in the

Bellingshausen Sea The Bellingshausen Sea is an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula between 57°18'W and 102°20'W, west of Alexander Island, east of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island, and south of Peter I Island (there the southern ''Vostokkyste ...

, to the Weddell Sea crossing the Antarctic Peninsula from west to east. The three refuges were built: the

Chacabuco Chacabuco is one of the many abandoned nitrate or "saltpeter" towns ("oficinas salitreras" in Spanish) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Other nitrate towns of the Atacama Desert include Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works. Unlike ...

, the Yapeyú and the Maipú. The project took 63 days, travelling about 786 kilometres using sled pulled by dogs. The refuge has food, equipment, medicines and fuel and was used for scientific projects carried out in the 1957-1958

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. The refuge pay homage to Yapeyú, the birthplace of José de San Martín.

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Yapeyú Refuge

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