Port Lockroy Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
former research station in Antarctica, now operated as a museum
About Port Lockroy
Port Lockroy is a natural harbour, in a bay in the straits between Wiencke and Anvers islands, which are part of the Palmer Archipelago on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The same name refers to a former British base on little Goudier Island within the bay. In winter these islands are fused to the Peninsula mainland by ice. In summer the sea-ice melts, so ships can approach. Wiencke and Anvers are mountainous and permanently ice-clad but in summer Goudier is bare flat rock - that makes it suitable for penguins and other ground-nesting species, and it's an obvious spot to build a base. The bay was discovered in 1904 and named for Édouard Lockroy, a radical French politician supportive of naval strength and Antarctic exploration. It was used by whaling vessels between 1911 and 193
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