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Rothera in the British Antarctic Territory, in summertime

Rothera Rothera research station is a British Antarctic Survey base standing on Rothera Point on Adelaide Island, just off the west coast of Graham Land, in the British Antarctic Territory. Rothera is a research and logistics base which also serves as the capital of the territory. The Station is the BAS logistics centre for the Antarctic and home to well-equipped biological laboratories and facilities for a wide range of research. The station is situated on a rock and raised beach promontory at the southern extremity of Wormald Ice Piedmont, south-eastern Adelaide Island. The station has a 2,950-foot crushed rock runway, with an associated hangar and bulk fuel storage facility, and a wharf for the discharge of cargo from supply ships. There is a transitory summer population of scientists and support staff who reach Rothera either by ship or through use of an intercontinental Dash-7 aircraft flying from the Falkland Islands. (Read more)