Port Lockroy is a former British base on a postage stamp-sized island off the larger Wiencke island on the West coast of Antarctica. The bay was discovered in 1904 and named after Edouard Lockroy, a French politician helping to fund the French Antarctic Expedition.
It has been renovated over the years since 1996, and is now a historical site administered by UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, with a museum reflecting its time as a base between 1944 and 1962.
In the summer when cruise tourists come, the site is manned by a few people tending the museum, shop, and post office.
Otherwise the site has been taken over by gentoo penguins and skuas (below right).
As there was still snow on the ground, the penguins had not yet been able to lay their eggs, but were busy collecting stones (below left) from the water’s edge using the ’penguin highways’ they have created on the snow (below right).
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