Marambio Airport
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Marambio Airport (ICAO: SAWB) is an airport serving Marambio Base, an Argentinian research station on Seymour Island in the Antarctic Peninsula. Marambio is the main air-support node for most local and foreign stations in Argentine Antarctica, providing year-round medical evacuation, search and rescue, personnel, cargo, and mail transfer.[5]
Supplies are taken to the Marambio Base during the whole year for later distribution to other Argentine bases (except for Belgrano II). There are over 100 intercontinental flights every year.[6]
Facilities
The airport control tower is 12 m (39 ft) high. The runway is lined with strobe lights. The parking apron provides large cargo aircraft like the Hercules C-130 with access to fuel and concurrent services.
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There is a hangar for the Argentine Air Force de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter that routinely operates from the base along with two Bell 212s that are deployed during the summer campaigns to support scientific activities and link to other Argentine bases.[7]
See also
- Transport in Antarctica
- List of airports in Antarctica
References
- ^ "Base Marambio". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Base Marambio". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Airport information for Base Marambio Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
- ^ "Base Marambio Airport". SkyVector. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ^ "Base Antártica Marambio" (in Spanish). Fundación Marambio. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013.
- ^ "Marambio Station / Seymour Island". French-Polar-Team. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014.
- ^ "Misión y Organización – Organismos y Unidades – Base Marambio" (in Spanish). Argentine Air Force. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013.
External links
- OurAirports - Marambio Base
- FallingRain - Marambio Base Airport
- Accident history for Base Marambio, Seymour Island at Aviation Safety Network
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