South Atlantic Station

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The South Atlantic Station was one of the geographical divisions into which the British Royal Navy divided its world-wide responsibilities. It absorbed the former Cape Station.

It covered the Atlantic Ocean south of a line drawn between the northern French West African (now Mauritanian) border and French Guiana and the Southern Ocean and Indian Ocean east of a line drawn south from the western entrance to the Magellan Strait and west of a line drawn south from the South African/ Mozambican border^[1]. These responsibilities did not imply territorial claims but the navy would actively protect Britain's trading interests.

The South Atlantic Station had bases at Freetown, Simonstown, and Port Stanley.