Presidente Aguirre Cerda Station
/ Deception Island
Latitude : 62°56 SLongitude : 60°36 W
Time : UTC -3
In 1955 Chile inaugurated its station Pedro Aguirre Cerda at Pendulum Cove, to increase the Chilean presence in the sector claimed by that nation.
In 1969 a violent volcanic eruption demolished the Chilean stations Pedro Aguirre Cerda and Gutierrez Vargas of which studies activities were meteorology and volcanology.
Today only ruins remain.
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Music : Carlos Nunez - Todos os mundos - Amanecer / BMG 2002
Music : Carlos Nunez - Todos os mundos - Amanecer / BMG 2002