Stock Photo - Sunset over Stonington Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Southern Ocean MORE INFO Stonington Island was chosen as the site for the East Base of the United States Antarctic Service USAS Expedition 19391941 and named after Stonington, Connecticut, home port of the sloop Hero in which Captain Nathaniel Palmer sighted the Antarctic continent in 1820 The base was also home to the British Antarctic Survey´s Base E, the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, and was the base of operations for many historic Antarctic peninsula surveying missions in the 1940s Base E was occupied through February 1975, and was cleaned up and repaired in 1992

Stock Photo: Sunset over Stonington Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Southern Ocean  MORE INFO Stonington Island was chosen as the site for the East Base of the.

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