| Yelcho Station | |
| Settlement Type: | Antarctic Station |
| Flag Size: | 110px |
| Mapsize: | 350px |
| Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
| Pushpin Relief: | yes |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Location of Yelcho Station in Antarctica |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Yelcho Station in Antarctica |
| Coordinates: | -64.8759°N -63.5837°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  |
| Subdivision Type1: | Location in Antarctica |
| Subdivision Name1: | South Bay Doumer Island Antarctica |
| Subdivision Type3: | Administered by |
| Subdivision Name3: | Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH) |
| Established Title: | Established |
| 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 |
| Named For: | Yelcho (1906) |
| Elevation M: | 10 |
| Population As Of: | 2017 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Summer |
| Population Blank1: | 28 |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Winter |
| Population Blank2: | 0 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Website: | Base Yelcho (INACH) |
Yelcho Base is a Chilean Antarctic research base. It is located on the shore of the South Bay, Doumer Island.[2]
The station was built in 1962 by the Chilean Army and was given to the INACH in 1980. It was abandoned between 1998 and 2014, and was reopened in 2015.[3]
After its last remodeling it went from being a small "sub-base", a scientific shelter of 50 m2 built, to have a built area of 200m2, with its own laboratories and an increase in accommodation capacity, from its original 7 beds, until completing space for up to 28 people.[1] [4]
It is named for the Yelcho that was commanded by Luis Pardo, who saved the Shacketon's Expedition in 1916 from the Elephant Island.
The construction of the base was initiated by the Chilean Navy during the 16th Antarctic campaign of Chile, and was completed in the following season, on 18 February 1962.