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Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 61
Character Range: 62190–63223

61      'Base A' at Port Lockroy, Goudier Island, off Wiencke Island, Antarctic Peninsula                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  6449 S, 6329 W
        Of historic importance as an Operation Tabarin base from 1944 and for scientific research, including the first measurements of the ionosphere, and the first recording of an atmospheric whistler, from Antarctica. Port Lockroy was a key monitoring site during the International Geophysical Year of 1957–58.