ABSTRACT
This paper addresses the barely known history of an Argentine Antarctic hut: the Teniente Luis Ventimiglia hut, installed by the Argentine Antarctic Institute on Peter I Øy (Peter I Island) in March 1971. In examining the history of the only Argentine Antarctic facility outside of the Argentine Antarctic Sector, this article describes the reasons behind the establishment of the hut and the scientific work that took place there as well as previous Argentine expeditions to Peter I.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the following people for their help with the historical photographs: Andrés Zakrajsek, Manuel Cupeiro and José Luis Fornaro, all from the IAA. I am also grateful to Ivar Stokkeland of the Norwegian Polar Institute for providing the Peter I Øy aerial photographs. Máximo Gowland, from the National Directorate for Antarctic Foreign Policy of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship, Dolores Deregibus (IAA) and Adrian Howkins are thanked for their assistance and contributions to this manuscript. I am particularly grateful to the following people, who kindly agreed to be interviewed: Dalton Alurralde, Gustavo Grumstrup, Julio Ortíz and Roberto Ulloa. Interviews took place in 2018. Roberto Ulloa also permitted me to make use of his unpublished memoirs.
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