Case file · Secret facility (alleged)
Operation Tabarin
In February 1944 Britain secretly set up bases in Antarctica, including Port Lockroy, under Operation Tabarin, to watch for German raiders and back its territorial claims against Argentina.
1944 CE · -64.82, -63.49 · status: official
The account
The secrecy later fed conspiracy stories that British forces fought a hidden German base. The operation became the British Antarctic Survey.
The sceptical view
Fully documented; there was no German base to find.