Petrel Station | |
Native Name: | Base Petrel |
Native Name Lang: | es |
Settlement Type: | Antarctic base |
Flag Size: | 110px |
Flag Border: | no |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of Petrel Base in Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Petrel Base in Antarctica |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Coordinates: | -63.4779°N -56.2288°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | |
Subdivision Type1: | Location in Antarctica |
Subdivision Name1: | Dundee Island Joinville Group Graham Land Antarctica |
Subdivision Type3: | Administered by |
Established Title: | Established |
Extinct Title: | Evacuated |
Named For: | Petrel / Procellariidae |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation M: | 18 |
Population As Of: | 2017 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Blank1 Title: | Summer |
Population Blank1: | 25 |
Population Blank2 Title: | Winter |
Population Blank2: | 0 |
Timezone1: | ART |
Utc Offset1: | -3 |
Blank Name Sec1: | Type |
Blank Info Sec1: | Seasonal |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Period |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | Summer |
Blank2 Name Sec1: | Status |
Blank2 Info Sec1: | Operational |
Blank Name Sec2: | Activities |
Blank Info Sec2: | Geology |
Blank1 Name Sec2: | Facilities |
Petrel Skiway | |
Icao: | SA47 |
Type: | Private |
City-Served: | Petrel Base |
Location: | Dundee Island |
Utc: | -4 |
Elevation-F: | 15 |
Elevation-M: | 5 |
Coordinates: | -63.479°N -56.2313°W |
Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airfield in Antarctica |
R1-Number: | 08/26 |
R1-Length-F: | 3,485 |
R1-Length-M: | 1,062 |
R1-Surface: | Ice |
Footnotes: | [2] |
The Petrel Base (Spanish; Castilian: Base Petrel) is a non-permanent Argentine scientific station located on Dundee Island, in the Joinville Group, in Graham Land, part of the Argentinian claim on Antarctica.
Opened as a permanent base on 22 February 1967, it is being used as a temporary base since 1978.