Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base
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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.
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.
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.
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- Antarctica. Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1985.
- (Portuguese) Castro, Therezinha, Atlas-Texto de Geopolítica do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Capemi Editora, 1982.
- Child, Jack. Antarctica and South American Geopolitics: Frozen Lebensraum. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988.
- (Portuguese) Menezes, Eurípides, A Antártica e os Desafios do Futuro. Rio de Janeiro: Capemi Editora, 1982.
- Stewart, Andrew, Antarctica: An Encyclopedia. London: McFarland and Co., 1990 (2 volumes).
- U.S. National Science Foundation, Geographic Names of the Antarctic, Fred G. Alberts, ed. Washington: NSF, 1980.
