List of disasters in Antarctica by death toll

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The following is a list of known disasters in Antarctica which have resulted in fatalities. It includes disasters which happened on land, as well as in the waters surrounding the continent.

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YearTypeFatalitiesIncidentLocationComments
1819 Shipwreck 644 San Telmo (Spanish ship) [1] Drake Passage, Southern Ocean
1979 Aircraft 257 Air New Zealand Flight 901 [2] Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica
2019 Aircraft 38 2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash Drake Passage, AntarcticaAircraft lost en route from Chile to Teniente R. Marsh Airport, King George Island
2010 Shipwreck 22South Korean trawler Insung [3] Ross Sea, near the McMurdo Station 5 confirmed dead, 17 missing and presumed dead [4]
1976 Aircraft 11Livingston Island plane crash [5] Livingston Island, Antarctica
1985 Aircraft 10Nelson Island plane crash [6] Nelson Island, Antarctica
1960 Fire (building)8Mirny Station fire [7] [8] [9] Mirny Station, Antarctica
1823 Shipwreck 7 Jenny [10] Drake Passage, Southern OceanMost likely a legend
1958 Aircraft 7Cape Hallett Bay plane crash [11] Cape Hallett Bay, Antarctica6 survivors
1966 Aircraft 6Ross Ice Shelf plane crash [12] Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1986 Aircraft 6Philippi Glacier plane crash [13] Philippi Glacier, Antarctica
1961 Aircraft 5Wilkes Station plane crash [14] Wilkes Station, Antarctica
1956 Aircraft 4McMurdo Station plane crash [15] McMurdo Station, Antarctica4 survivors
1994 Aircraft 4Rothera Research Station plane crash [16] near the Rothera Research Station, Antarctica
2010 Aircraft 4Terre Adélie helicopter crash [17] near the Dumont d'Urville Station, Terre Adélie, Antarctica
1946 Aircraft 3 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash [18] Thurston Island, Antarctica
1958 Aircraft 3Marguerite Bay plane crash [19] Marguerite Bay, Antarctica4 survivors
1965 Tractor 3Tractor falls into crevasse [20] Milorgknausane nunataks, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
1979 Aircraft 3Molodezhnaya Ice Station plane crash [21] near Molodezhnaya Ice Station, Antarctica11 survivors
1989 Aircraft 3Mirny Station plane crash [22] Mirny Station, Antarctica
1999 Aircraft 3Terre Adélie helicopter crash [23] near the Dumont d'Urville Station, Terre Adélie, Antarctica
2013 Aircraft 3Mount Elizabeth plane crash [24] Mount Elizabeth, Antarctica
2012 Shipwreck 3Jeong Woo 2 (South Korean fishing vessel) [25] Ross Sea, near the McMurdo Station3 missing were presumed dead, 7 burn injuries, 2 serious
1929 Aircraft 2Whaler scouting flight crash [26] [27] west of Scott Island, Antarctica
1948 Fire (building)2Hope Bay fire [28] Base D, Hope Bay, Graham Land, Antarctica1 survivor
1959 Aircraft 2Marble Point plane crash [29] Marble Point, Antarctica3 survivors
1969 Aircraft 2Mount McLennan helicopter crash [30] Taylor Valley, Antarctica6 survivors
1987 Aircraft 2D-59 plane crash [31] [32] 1390 km northwest of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica11 survivors
2008 Aircraft 2Neumayer Station III helicopter crash [33] near Neumayer Station III, Antarctica3 survivors
2012 Fire (building)2 Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station fire [34] Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Base, Antarctica1 minor burn injury
2018 Work accident 22018 McMurdo mishap [35] McMurdo Station, AntarcticaTwo contractors asphyxiated maintaining fire suppression system
2003Attack by a Leopard Seal 1Snorkeling scientist dragged underwater by a Leopard Seal and drowned. [36] [37] [note 1] Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica
2008 Fire (building)1Progress Station fire [38] Progress Station, Antarctica2 serious burn injuries
2016 Snowmobile 1McMurdo Shear Zone Accident [39] McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica
2016Aircraft1Pilot crevasse fatality unloading sling [40] Davis Station, Antarctica
2022 Rogue wave 1Viking Polaris cruise ship [41] Drake Passage, Southern Ocean 4 injuries

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Notes

References

  1. ↑ "San Telmo". Wreck Site. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Story of Flight 901". The Erebus Story. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ "South Korean ship sinks off Antarctica, at least 5 dead". Reuters. December 13, 2010. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Five dead, 17 missing after Korean fishing vessel, No.1 In Sung, sinks in Southern Ocean". The Old Salt Blog. December 13, 2010. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  7. ↑ Griffiths, Tom (2007). Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica. Harvard University Press. p. 149.
  8. ↑ "Fire at Soviet Base In Antarctic Kills 8; Eight Scientists Die in Fire At Soviet Base in the Antarctic". The New York Times. 20 August 1960.
  9. ↑ "Загадки истории – Пожар в Антарктиде" (in Russian).
  10. ↑ Rogers, SA (14 June 2010). "Real Ghost Ships: 10 Mysterious Abandoned Sea Vessels". Web Urbanist. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  11. ↑ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  12. ↑ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  13. ↑ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  14. ↑ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 170385". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  15. ↑ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 154757". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  16. ↑ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  17. ↑ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 78943". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  18. ↑ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 179701". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  19. ↑ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 172659". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  20. ↑ "Bailey, Wild and Wilson". British Antarctic Monument Trust. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  21. ↑ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-14FKM CCCP-04193 Molodezhnaya". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  22. ↑ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  23. ↑ Butler, Declan. "Fatal helicopter crash at French Antarctic research base". Nature.com. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  24. ↑ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  25. ↑ "Fire aboard ship off Antarctica kills three fishermen". The Guardian. 11 January 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  26. ↑ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 34225". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  27. ↑ Copyright, Russell Owen (31 December 1929). "Whaling fliers lost in Antarctic Sea". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  28. ↑ "Antarctica Fire History". CoolAntarctica.com. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  29. ↑ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  30. ↑ "Thomas E. Berg". southpolestation.com. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  31. ↑ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  32. ↑ "Two killed in airplane crash in East Antarctica". southpolestation.com. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  33. ↑ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 15183". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  34. ↑ Brocchetto, Marilia (26 February 2012). "Fire at Antarctica station kills 2 Brazilian sailors". CNN. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  35. ↑ "Board of Investigation Final Report: Double Contractor Employee Fatality Mishap | NSF - National Science Foundation" (PDF). www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  36. ↑ Leopard seal attacks and kills British scientist snorkelling off Antarctic coast, The Independent, 24 July 2003.
  37. ↑ Seal kills scientist in Antarctic, CNN, 23 July 2003.
  38. ↑ Valery, Lukin. "One dead in fire at Progress Station". Adventure Antarctica. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  39. ↑ Kaplan, Sarah. "Climate scientist Gordon Hamilton, 50, dies in accident in Antarctica". The Washington Post. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  40. ↑ "Court finds Commonwealth responsible for Antarctic helicopter pilot's death". ABC News. 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  41. ↑ "'Rogue wave' strikes Antarctic cruise ship, leaves 1 dead and 4 injured". ABC News. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
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