Villa Las Estrellas, Research station and village on King George Island, Antarctica
Villa Las Estrellas contains residential buildings, a school, a post office, and a hospital, serving as Chile's primary Antarctic settlement at Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva.
The settlement started operations in April 1984 as part of Chile's presence in Antarctica, becoming one of only two civilian communities on the continent.
The settlement maintains a year-round Chilean postal service and banking facilities, supporting communication between Antarctica and the rest of the world.
The population fluctuates between 150 residents during summer months and 80 during winter, with all inhabitants required to undergo appendix removal before settling.
The F-50 school operated from 1984 to 2018, educating more than 300 children while adapting to the extreme polar environment.
Location: Antártica
Location: Antarctic Treaty area
Inception: April 9, 1984
Part of: Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva
GPS coordinates: -62.20020,-58.96410
Latest update: May 26, 2025 21:20
This collection covers places in remote deserts, isolated islands, and inaccessible mountain regions where human settlement is limited to a minimum. They range from research stations in Antarctica such as McMurdo Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to the French Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. The collection includes settlements without road access like the village of Supai deep in the Grand Canyon of Arizona, reachable only on foot, by helicopter, or by mule, as well as Ittoqqortoormiit on the eastern coast of Greenland. Other locations are Easter Island in the Pacific, located over 2300 miles (3700 kilometers) from mainland Chile, and Tristan da Cunha, an inhabited island group in the middle of the South Atlantic. Extreme locations include Alert in Nunavut, Canada, the northernmost permanently inhabited settlement in the world, the Siberian village of Oymyakon with its exceptionally low winter temperatures, and the Yemeni island of Socotra with its peculiar flora. The collection also includes the Siwa Oasis in the Egyptian desert, Motuo County in Tibet, and the Scottish island of Foula.
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