Little Rockford was an Antarctic exploration base from December 1958 to January 1965,[1] located on the Ross Ice Shelf, south of the Bay of Whales.

[2] It was named after Rockford, Illinois, the hometown of Admiral George Dufek.

Admiral Dufek was in charge of the United States military mission, through the United States Navy, to support research in Antarctica named Operation Deep Freeze,[3] and the first man to land at the South Pole by airplane.

[2] Originally, Little Rockford was established near the western edge of the Ross Ice Shelf close to the King Edward VII Peninsula in December 1958.

The following year it was relocated to the east edge of Marie Byrd Land.