At the beginning of the 22nd Antarctic Activity Week (Febr.17-2025), Argentina did celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the inauguration of the Almirante Brown Scientific Station (WAP ARG-Ø2).
On February 17, 1965, the “Instituto Antartico Argentino” did open thhe Almirante Brown Scientific Station, formerly a Naval Detachment. Since its reopening as a permanent Scientific Station of the Argentine Antarctic Institute,
until its partial destruction by a fire in 1984, Base Brown was Argentina’s most prominent scientific station in Antarctica. Studies were carried out in biology (zoology and botany), biochemistry, human and animal physiology, pathology, bacteriology, meteorology, auroras, nuclear radiation (environmental), glaciology, oceanography and ecology.
Currently, summer Antarctic campaigns are carried out there and scientific work is concentrated in the areas of oceanography and biology, particularly penguins and fish.
Almirante Brown Station is located in Paradise Bay, on the West coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the most beautiful places in Antarctica, with intense tourist activity in the summers.
The Base has his own Radio shack (see pic aside), but unfortunately is not used!
We especially greet those who, at some point inhabited this very special places as well as we thank Mehdi F5PFP who was the last one to activate this rare one on last march 1st 2009.
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Other calls active from Almirante Brown (WAP ARG-Ø2) from 1970 through 2009 have been: LU1ZB, LU1ZE, VP8DJK, LU/FT5YJ & LU/FT5YK.