Fire precautions at Antarctic Stations

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Stonehouse, Bernard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1953
• Subjects: General; Antarctic; South Shetland Islands; Deception Island; Terre Adélie; Terre-Adélie; Hope Bay; Trinity Peninsula; Port Martin; Port-Martin; Antarc*; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/526984/; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247400048142

In 1946 the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey station on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands was completely destroyed by fire. Stores, valuable equipment and the records of many months' work were lost. In 1948 the station at Hope Bay in Trinity Peninsula was burnt down, with the l...