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Antarctica schiereiland en Weddell zee,
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Tijdens een trip naar Antarctica ga je langs vooraf vastgelegde plekken. Kleine eilanden en belangrijke natuurlijke spots. Er zitten meestal ook een aantal onderzoeksstations tussen. Base Brown is een toegankelijk station met een mooi uitzicht over de baai waar het aan ligt.

Bron Wiki:
Brown Station dates to 6 April 1951, when Argentina established the Almirante Brown Naval Detachment at Paradise Harbor.

The Argentine Antarctic Institute took over the station in 1964–65, creating one of the most complete biology laboratories on the Antarctic Peninsula. It included a main house of 292 m2 (3,140 sq ft); two folding 30,000 l (6,600 imp gal; 7,900 US gal) fuel tanks; and an additional building exclusive for scientific research, equipped with three labs, photography workshop, emergency radio station, office and library.It was called Almirante Brown Research Station and inaugurated on 17 February 1965.

Brown Station's original facilities were burned down by the station's doctor on 12 April 1984 after he was ordered to stay for the winter.[4] Station personnel were rescued by the ship USS Hero and taken to United States’s Palmer Station.

Argentina rebuilt the base but it was demoted to summer-only status. During the summer campaign of 1995–96 the Logistics Department of the Argentine National Antarctic Directorate built two new habitable modules: a laboratory and a house with amenities. In the 1999–2000 campaign the Directorate built a new main house capable of comfortably accommodating 8 people; the new building consists of 4 bedrooms, kitchen and 2 bathrooms.

Brown slipped into several years of inactivity during the 2000s decade but since 2007 is occupied during the summer again.