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Esperanza Base seen from Hope Bay. Built in 1953, [2] [3] [4] the base houses 56 inhabitants in winter, including 10 families and 2 school teachers. Provincial school #38 Presidente Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (formerly named Julio Argentino Roca) was founded in 1978 and acquired independent status in 1997.
Esperanza Winter Antarctic Expedition. In 1962, the then First Lieutenant Giró Tapper returned to Antarctica as the head of Esperanza Base.From Esperanza he conducted several land surveys which culminated with a patrol from the joint Army and Navy base “Teniente Matienzo” to the Antarctic Polar circle, all in all a trajectory of 457 km.
Palma was born in Fortín Sargento Cabral at the Esperanza Base, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, and weighed 3.4 kg (7 lb 8 oz). His father, Captain Jorge Emilio Palma, was head of the Argentine Army detachment at the base. [1] While ten people have been born in Antarctica since, Palma's birthplace remains the southernmost.
This is a list of people born at Esperanza Base, Antarctica. As of 2010, the following people were named by the Argentine Army as having been born at Esperanza Base. [1] Emilio Marcos Palma (1978), the first child born in Antarctica; Marisa de las Nieves Delgado (1978), the first girl born in Antarctica; Rubén Eduardo de Carli (1979)
The Chapel of St. Francis of Assisi [1] (Spanish: Capilla de San Francisco de Asís) is a chapel of the Roman Catholic Church located on the Esperanza Base administered by Argentina, [citation needed] on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. [2] It is one of eight churches on Antarctica. Founded on February 18, 1976, and ...
Esperanza Base is a permanent, all year-round Argentine research station which was established in 1952. It is operated by the Instituto Antartico Argentino and has an average of 55 inhabitants in winter. The base installations have displaced part of a penguin rookery. [citation needed]
Esperanza Drum and Bugle Corps, a modern drum corps from San Diego, California, United States; Esperanza Ortega, the title character of Esperanza Rising, a 2000 novel; La Esperanza Airport, Nicaragua; Esperanza Diamond, found in Crater of Diamonds State Park; Esperanza, fictional city in Ubisoft video game, Far Cry 6.
The first was Emilio Marcos Palma, born on 7 January 1978 to Argentine parents at Esperanza, Hope Bay, near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula. [5] The first girl born on the Antarctic continent was Marisa De Las Nieves Delgado, born on 27 May 1978. The birth occurred at Fortín Sargento Cabral, Base Esperanza (Argentine Army). [6] [7]