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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 isContinue reading “Port Lockroy, Antarctica”