Hope Bay
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Hope Bay (Spanish: Bahía Esperanza) () is 5 km (3 mi) long and 3 km (2 mi) wide, indenting the tip of Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound.
Discovered on January 15, 1902, by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld, who named it in commemoration of the winter spent there by J. Gunnar Andersson, S.A. Duse, Toralf Grunden and José María Sobral of his expedition, until rescued by Argentine corvette Uruguay.
The British established a base at Hope Bay in 1945 as part of Operation Tabarin. On December 8, 1997 the British Antarctic Survey transferred the base to Uruguay, who renamed it Teniente Ruperto Elichiribehety Uruguayan Antarctic Scientific Station. The Argentine base Esperanza is also located at Hope Bay, and is named after it.
This is also one of the two places in Antarctica that has experienced temperatures of almost 15°C on one record day.
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