ORCA Orcadas Base, Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica. v1.0
New Helipad Scenery for the real ORCA Orcadas Base, Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands, Antarctica.
This scenery is of the Base Orcadas, an Argentine scientific station in Antarctica, and the oldest of the stations in Antarctica still in operation.
It is located on Laurie Island, one of the South Orkney Islands, at 4 meters above sea level and 170 meters from the coastline. Established by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in 1903 and transferred to the Argentine government in 1904.
Sovereignty- “owned by no one” – It comes under the Antarctic treaty.
“ORCA Orcadas Base” msfs map identification.
This is New very basic scenery, with posibly a fictitious Helipad, Base Orcadas an Argentine scientific station in Antarctica.
A large BLUE line was in middle of scenery now removed! (This can be seen on Bing images!) Ground re textured but original models left in place, so lots of room for improvement. The main goal is to put another real base on the map, in this remote area.
Signy Research station a short flight away south west. Also now re-textured the Fredriksen Island has an airstrip added,
Based on misc information & images.
All original msfs models etc used.
Installation – After unzipping, place the complete “sac-airport-orca-orkadas-base-laurie-island” folder
into your MSFS community folder.
Thats it, Have fun.
Any suggestions/errors for the scenery please ask or comment.
Thankyou to all who enjoy these free downloads, its fun making them & hopefully the quality
will improve with experience.
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GPS Coordinates: -60.7378, -44.7392
