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Research Station (on shore)
The cluster of buildings along the shoreline (some of them just above the iceberg in the photo) is, I THINK, an Angentiene research base (and perhaps their largest one). This might be the place marked on the previous map as the Esperanza Base (apparenlty called Base Esperanza in Spanish).
Before going on this tirp, I envisioned as Antarctic "base" would have several hundred people working on it (similar to a US military post). However, I'm guessing perhaps 8 or 9 might be more typical. If this is, indeed, Esperanza Base, its population is around 50 during winter (with perhaps a peak of two or three times that in winter, not counting when a small cruise ship might do a landing there).
(29 Nov 2010)
