Risopatrón Base, also ''Luis Risopatrón Base'', is a small Chilean

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research base in the northwest of

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in the

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situated on the

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linking

Coppermine Peninsula Coppermine Peninsula is the rugged, rocky promontory forming the northwest extremity of Alfatar Peninsula and Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It lies between the English Strait to the west and Carlota Cove to the east. ...

to Alfatar Peninsula and bounded by

Carlota Cove Carlota Cove is the 1.9 km wide cove indenting for 1.14 km the northwest coast of Alfatar Peninsula, Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica next east of Coppermine Peninsula, and entered between Fort William and Misn ...

to the north and Coppermine Cove to the south. Established as a refuge in 1949 and opened as a base in 1954, the facility supports summer research in

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and terrestrial

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. The base is named after the

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Luis Risopatrón (1869-1930) who compiled and published a comprehensive geographical dictionary of Chile in 1924.

Location

The base is located at which is 1.61 km southeast of Fort William, 1.63 km north-northwest of

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, 11.3 km north by west of Arturo Prat Base and 8.16 km north-northeast of

Maldonado Base 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 ...

(Bulgarian mapping in 2009.)

References

Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 112: Coppermine Peninsula, Robert Island, South Shetland Islands.

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.
ASPA 112: Coppermine Peninsula, Robert Island, South Shetland Islands.
Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty. * J. Turner and S. Pendlebury
Greenwich, Robert and Media Luna Islands, South Shetland Islands.
The International Antarctic Weather Forecasting Handbook. British Antarctic Survey.

INACH en Antártica.

Maps

* L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. ) Geography of Robert Island Chilean Antarctic Territory Outposts of the South Shetland Islands 1954 establishments in Antarctica {{RobertIsland-geo-stub

Location

See also

References

Maps