page_title: Melchior Base
hierarchical_section_title: Melchior Base
caption_attribution_description: Base Melchior de Argentina. Archipiélago Melchior.
context_page_description: Melchior Base or, seldom, Estación Melchior is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station. It is located on Observatorio Island, Melchior Islands, Dallmann Bay, in Palmer Archipelago on Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctic Peninsula.
  It is Argentina's second historical Antarctic base, after the 1904 establishment of the Orcadas Naval Detachment, the world's first—and oldest—permanent settlement in Antarctica.
  As of 2014 Melchior is one of 13 research bases in Antarctica operated by Argentina.
  From 1947 to 1961 it served as a permanent base; since then it is open during the summer season only.
context_section_description: Melchior Base (Spanish: Base Melchior) or, seldom, Estación Melchior) is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station. It is located on Observatorio Island, Melchior Islands, Dallmann Bay, in Palmer Archipelago on Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctic Peninsula.
  It is Argentina's second historical Antarctic base, after the 1904 establishment of the Orcadas Naval Detachment, the world's first—and oldest—permanent settlement in Antarctica.
  As of 2014 Melchior is one of 13 research bases in Antarctica operated by Argentina. 
  From 1947 to 1961 it served as a permanent base; since then it is open during the summer season only.
caption: Original wooden facilities at Melchior, January 1958
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