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Description of the natural environment

 Deception Island, where the Army-managed Spanish Antarctic base Gabriel de Castilla is located (latitude 62º58'S, longitude 60º40'W), is in the South Shetland Islands archipelago, only 100 km north of Antarctica, over 1,000 km from the nearest populated place and 13,000 km from Spain.