Risopatrón Station | |
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  Risopatrón Station Location of Risopatrón Station inAntarctica | |
| Coordinates:62°22′42″S59°42′03″W / 62.378333°S 59.700833°W /-62.378333; -59.700833 | |
| Country |  Chile |
| Location in Antarctica | Robert Island South Shetland Islands Antarctica |
| Administered by | Instituto Antártico Chileno INACH |
| Established | 20 March 1949 (1949-03-20) |
| Elevation | 15 m (49 ft) |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
| • Summer | 6 |
| • Winter | 0 |
| Type | Seasonal |
| Period | Summer |
| Status | Operational |
| Activities | List
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| Website | Refugio Luis Risopatrón INACH |
Risopatrón Base, alsoLuis Risopatrón Base, is a small ChileanAntarctic research base in the northwest ofRobert Island in theSouth Shetland Islands,Antarctica situated on theisthmus linkingCoppermine Peninsula toAlfatar Peninsula and bounded byCarlota Cove to the north andCoppermine Cove to the south. Established as a refuge in 1949 and opened as a base in 1954, the facility supports summer research ingeology,geophysics and terrestrialbiology.
The base is named after theChileangeographerLuis Risopatrón (1869-1930) who compiled and published a comprehensive geographical dictionary of Chile in 1924.
The base is located at62°22′42.4″S59°42′02.5″W / 62.378444°S 59.700694°W /-62.378444; -59.700694 which is 1.61 km southeast ofFort William, 1.63 km north-northwest ofThe Triplets, 11.3 km north by west ofArturo Prat Base and 8.16 km north-northeast ofMaldonado Base (Bulgarian mapping in 2009.)
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