The Brazilian "Comandante Ferraz" Base is located in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, at 62°08 S, 58°40 W. A map of King George Island Admiralty Bay (62°10′ S 058°25′ W) is an irregular bay, 8 km wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island for 16 km in the South Shetland Islands. ... Location of King George Island Map of King George Island King George Island (Argentina: Isla 25 de Mayo, Chile: Isla Rey Jorge, Russian historical name - Vaterlo (Waterloo)) is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, situated at , 120 kilometers off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. ... Antarctic Peninsula map Booth Island and Mount Scott flank the narrow Lemaire Channel on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. ...

It is named after Navy Commander Luiz Antonio de Carvalho Ferraz, a hydrographer and oceanographer who visited Antarctica twice on board British vessels. He was instrumental in persuading his country's government to develop an Antarctic program, and died suddenly in 1982 while representing Brazil at an oceanographic conference in Halifax.

Locations of Brazil's bases in the Antarctic

The Ferraz Base is built on the same site of the old British "Base G", and the weathered wooden structures of the old base make a sharp contrast with the bright green and orange metal structures of the Brazilian base, which was first set up in 1984. Above the base is a small cemetery with five crosses. Three are the graves of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) personnel; the fourth commemorates a BAS base leader lost at sea. The fifth cross is the grave of a Brazilian radio operator sergeant who died of a heart attack at Ferraz in 1990. BAS headquarters The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), formerly the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), is an institute of the Natural Environment Research Council, and has, for the last fifty years, undertaken the majority of Britains scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent. ...

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