Doctor Guillermo Mann Base

Doctor Guillermo Mann Station
Antarctic Station
Cape Shirreff research station with the Chilean facilities on the left and the US ones on the right
Location of Guillermo Mann Station in Antarctica
Doctor Guillermo Mann Station
Location of Guillermo Mann Station in Antarctica
Coordinates: 62°28′12″S 60°46′16″W / 62.469927°S 60.771241°W / -62.469927; -60.771241Coordinates: 62°28′12″S 60°46′16″W / 62.469927°S 60.771241°W / -62.469927; -60.771241
Country  Chile
Location in Antarctica Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula
Livingston Island
South Shetland Islands
Antarctica
Administered by Instituto Antártico Chileno INACH
Established November 1991 (1991-11)
Named for Guillermo Mann
Population
  Total
  • 6 in summer, 0 in winter
Type Seasonal
Period Summer
Status Closed
Website Base Profesor Julio Escudero (INACH)

Doctor Guillermo Mann Base (formerly Camp Shirreff) is a Chilean Antarctic research base. It is located on the east side of Cape Shirreff on Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic peninsula.

It is near the Shirreff Base that is administrated by the United States.

The base is named after the Chilean zoologist, naturalist and ecologist Guillermo Mann, who participated in 1947 on the first Chilean Antarctic Expedition.

This base should not to be confused with the old Doctor Guillermo Mann or Spring-INACH Base from 1973 that is located in the Spring Point, Hughes Bay. Today that base is not operational.

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