On the second of January 1904, the President of Argentina, Julio Roca, signed an accord in which the government agreed to take over responsibility for maintaining, and staffing permanently, a meteorological and magnetic observatory that had been established by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. | El 2 de enero de 1904, el Presidente Roca firmaba un acuerdo por el que la Argentina se haría cargo del funcionamiento del observatorio meteorológico y magnético, establecido por la Expedición Nacional Antártica Escocesa, en las islas Orcadas del Sur. |
