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Port Lockroy (Map)
The right hand track line (path) shows the route we took a day earlier, when we tried to go to Paradise Harbor, then backtracked to Neko Harbor.
The (roughly parallel) left hand track show our route to Port Lockroy. Port Lockroy seems to initially been a small bay on the west side of Weincke Island. There is a tiny island inside that bay. The tiny island is named Goudier Island. Goudier Island was the site of British Base A during World War II.
The military base was later converted to a scientific base, and then was abandoned around 1962. In the mid-1990s, the base was refurbished and is now operated during Southern Hemisphere summers as a museum and (perhaps more important) a souvineer shop. The name Port Lockroy now seems to be loosely applied to Goudier Island and the buildings on the island.
Several rooms in what had been the main building of the base have been restored to roughtly what they might have looked like shortly before the time scienfitric base closed in 1962. There were some sleds (sleges) outside. I'm not sure if they were representative of 1962, or it they represented an earlier era.
