Palmer (Antarctic Station)

The station is named after Nathaniel Palmer , the first American to see Antarctica. The maximum number of employees is 46 people, but usually it is 40 people in the summer and 15-20 people in the winter. Scientific laboratories are located in the biolaboratory building; in addition, there is a pier and a helipad.

A mile to the northwest is Old Palmer Station, next to the English Base N, built in the mid-1950s. This place is now known as Amsler Island. The "Old Station" was built in 1965, three years before the main station was opened, and was used by the builders of the "New Station", and later as a backup shelter for the personnel of the "New Station", but this opportunity was never used in the 1990s . years the old station was dismantled as part of an environmental program for garbage removal from the Antarctic.

Most of the research is done by marine biologists. In addition, the station has equipment for continuous monitoring of seismic and atmospheric phenomena. The radio tracks lightning throughout the Western Hemisphere.

There are penguin colonies near the station, including Adelie, which are mostly populated in summer, but a small number of penguins can be found in the colonies all year round. Also near the station there are rookeries of various seals, including elephant seals, sea leopards, and crabeater seals. The sea near the station is visited by killer whales and humpback whales.

The station is served by an ice-class vessel RV Laurence M. Gould , performing marine research in the Antarctic Peninsula. Near the station there is a 762-meter ice runway.

• Bahia Paraiso

• Station site