Activities on the King George Island group, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

1 May 1985

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Polar Record

Vol. 22 (140) , 475-484
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400005921

Abstract

King George Island and Nelson Island, close together in the central South Shetland Islands, were discovered early in the 19th century and often visited by whalers and sealers. Whalers also used their harbours early in the present century. The first permanent station was established in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. Currently they are the site of scientific stations and depots operated by eight Antarctic Treaty nations (Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Peoples' Republic of China, Poland, USSR and Uruguay), all of which make use of their accessible harbours and relatively long summer season.

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