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A zodiac and driver forcefully pushing an iceberg away from the aft part of the ship.
Base Brown
Brown Station or more often Base Brown or Estación Brown is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station named after Admiral William Brown, the father of the Argentine Navy. It is located on Sanavirón Peninsula along Paradise Harbor, Danco Coast, in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.
Talk about living in a cold cold location for 3 months each year for research.
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The Argentine Antarctic Institute took over the station in 1964–65, creating one of the most complete biology laboratories on the Antarctic Peninsula. It included a main house of 3,140 sq ft two folding 30,000 l (6,600 imp gal; 7,900 US gal) fuel tanks; and an additional building exclusive for scientific research, equipped with three labs, photography workshop, emergency radio station, office and library. It was called Almirante Brown Research Station and inaugurated on 17 February 1965.
This photo was taken in January, the middle of the Antarctic summer. Look at all the snow and ice surround Base Camp Brown.
That is what I call a hillside behind the buildings.
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Research programs were developed for biology (zoology and botany), bacteriology, limnology, biochemistry, animal and human physiology, pathology, ecology, oceanography, meteorology, cosmic rays and ionospheric observations, environmental nuclear radiation, continental and sea ice glaciology, satellite geodesy, geology, geophysics, seismology, ozone monitoring and tide measurement.
A few of the local neighbors taking in some rare sun at the moment.
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A memorial
Zodiacs touring the huge harbor and ice formations.
Iron ore deposits in the rock wall sides.
Local birds
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