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Carlini Station     Ex Jubany
Antarctic base
Base Carlini
Carlini with mount Tres Hermanos (English: Three Brothers) in the background
Carlini StationLocation of Carlini Station in Antarctica
Coordinates: 62°14′18″S 58°40′04″W / 62.238251°S 58.667764°W / -62.238251; -58.667764
Country	Argentina
Province	Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Islands Province
Department	Antártida Argentina
Region	South Shetland Islands
Location	Potter Cove King George Island Antarctica
Established	November 21, 1953 (1953-11-21) (1953–54 austral summer season)
Named for	Alejandro Ricardo Carlini
Government
• Type	Directorate
• Body	Argentine National Antarctic Directorate
Elevation	10 m (30 ft)
Population
• Summer	80
• Winter	29
Time zone	UTC-3 (ART)
UN/LOCODE	AQ JUB
Type	All year-round
Period	Annual
Status	Operational
Activities	List Seismography Biology Oceanography
Facilities	List Main house Heliport Emergency house Technical staff houses General personnel houses Infirmary Radio station Main and auxiliary power plants Vehicle fleet Vehicle garage Workshop Laboratories (2: meteorology, seismography, biology, oceanography) Geodetic GPS receiver station Seismography station Warehouse and deposits Freezing chamber Waste treatment station Various multiple use buildings Movie theater

Carlini Base (Spanish: Base Carlini), formerly known as Jubany Base, is an Argentine permanent base and scientific research station named after scientist Alejandro Ricardo Carlini (previously it had been named after Argentine naval pilot José Isidro Jubany). It is located on Potter Cove, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands.

As of 2014, Carlini is one of 13 research bases in Antarctica operated by Argentina.

History

Potter Cove, in the southwestern region of the King George Island (known as Isla 25 de Mayo in Argentina) in the South Shetland archipelago was chosen around 1953 to host an Argentine naval station for amphibious aircraft support.

The refuge was established on 21 November 1953, being temporarily called Refugio Potter and then Caleta Potter Naval Station. In the summer campaign of 1953–54 the shelter was inhabited by only three men. It was proposed to name the base after naval aviator Jose Isidro Jubany, killed on duty on 14 September 1948; the station was thus renamed as Teniente Jubany in the course of the 1954–55 campaign.

In the summer campaign of 1957–1958, two groups of scientists working for the Argentine Antarctic Institute conducted geological survey work in the area, collecting petrographic and paleontological samples to study local geological upward movements. Dr. Otto Schneider was head of the first group, and Osvaldo C. Schauer, chief of the second.

In 1982, the naval station facilities were transferred to the Argentine Antarctic Institute, and the station was upgraded to the status of base, being inaugurated as such on 12 February.

In 1990, the Alfred Wegener Institute of marine research, Germany, began talks with the Argentine National Antarctic Institute, dealing with the installation of on-site laboratories and aquariums with modern equipment for scientific research. This new facility—named Dallmann Laboratory—was inaugurated on 20 January 1994.

In 1994, the LAJUB laboratory for greenhouse effect research was installed in collaboration with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IFA), Italy.

On 5 March 2012, by decree 309/2012 of the Executive, the base was renamed to Base Carlini, after the late researcher Dr. Alejandro Ricardo Carlini, of distinguished trajectory in Antarctic scientific studies.

On 8 December 2013, Metallica performed a concert at the base, under a small specially-built dome and without amplification due to environmental concerns. The show was streamed worldwide.

Description

Since its upgrade to base status in 1982, Carlini's facilities have been continuously improved; as of 2014 they include: main, emergency, technical staff and personnel houses; weather station; LAJUB Laboratory; Dallmann Laboratory; infirmary; radio station; power plant (both main and auxiliary, just for emergencies); garage and workhouse; freezing chamber; warehouse for supplies; incinerator and compactor for residues; installations for fuel pump, heat generation and fuel filtering and purification; various multiple use buildings; fuel tank array; antenna; heliport; geodetic GPS receiver station and seismography station. This adds to a maximum lodging capacity for 80 people. As of 2017 it has an average winter population of 29 people.

The base is located next to a colony of more than 16,000 penguins and 650 sea lions. The usual route to reach the base includes a flight from Ushuaia to Marambio Base, and then sailing for a few days.

Carlini enables scientists from different areas to develop advanced research projects in the disciplines of the natural sciences. These tasks increase during the more active summer campaigns. For example, there have been studies on human behavior and its biochemical correlations; ecological aspects of benthic, planktonic and coastal populations; censuses within pinniped colonies (mainly elephant seals and fur seals); physical chemistry and biology of lakes, ponds and other water bodies; tracing of ecotoxicological elements in the Antarctic ecosystem; continuous monitoring of long-term sea level in geology and geophysics operations; coastal ecology and microbiology; effect of UV radiation on marine phytoplankton and bacteria; etc.

LACAR Laboratories

The LACAR (Laboratorio Antártico Multidisciplinario Carlini) laboratories—former 'LAJUB' when the station designation was Jubany—are formed by two facilities / buildings: LACAR-Cabildo and LACAR-Catedral.

Of these two buildings, the LACAR-Cabildo is focused on hosting and maintaining different kinds of equipment—belonging to many projects—for the purposes of data collection; while the LACAR-Catedral holds four laboratories for sample handling and analysis related to various scientific disciplines.

These two buildings, like the rest of the Multidisciplinary Laboratories at the Argentinean permanent Antarctic Stations (LAMBI -at Marambio station-, LABEL -at Belgrano II station-, LABES -at Esperanza station-, LABORC -at Orcadas Station- and LASAN at San Martín station) are managed by the Scientific Coordination area of the Argentinean Antarctic Institute.

Climate

See also

• Argentine Antarctica
• List of Antarctic research stations
• List of Antarctic field camps

References

Notes

1. Before presidential decree 309/2012, which changed its name to the present one
2. Operated by Argentine Antarctic Institute

Citations

1. ^ Antarctic Station Catalogue (PDF) (catalogue). Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs. August 2017. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-473-40409-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 October 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
2. ^ Dias, Gisele Sousa (6 March 2012). "Por primera vez, una base antártica argentina tendrá el nombre de un científico". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 March 2012.
3. "Argentine Antarctic Stations". Dirección Nacional del Antártico – Argentina. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013.
4. ^ "Base Carlini" (in Spanish). Fundaciòn Marambio. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013.
5. "Journey To The BOTTOM Of The Earth". Metallica. 24 October 2013. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013.
6. "Estadísticas Climatológicas Normales - período 1991-2020" (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
7. "Estadísticas Climatológicas Normales – período 1991–2020" (PDF) (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. 2023. Archived from the original on 8 July 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
8. "Estadísticas Normales del mes–Base Carlini, Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur" (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
9. "Estadísticas climáticas: Base Carlini, Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur". Caracterización: Estadísticas de largo plazo (in Spanish). Servicio Meteorológico Nacional. Retrieved 13 April 2019.

External links

• Fundación Marambio – Base Carlini (in Spanish)
• Official website (in Spanish)

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• Geography
• Argentina

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