Esperanza Base, established in 1953, is one of Argentina's 13 Antarctic research bases, located in Hope Bay on the Trinity Peninsula of the larger Antarctic Peninsula. It contains 43 buildings with 3,744 square metres (40,300 sq ft) of space. In 1978, a pregnant woman was flown there for the birth of her child, Emilio Palma, the first in Antarctica.Photograph: Godot13