Marambio Airport

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Marambio Airport
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Marambio's runway looking northeast
Summary
Airport typePublic/Military
OperatorGovernment of Argentina
Serves Marambio Base
Location Seymour Island
Elevation  AMSL 760 ft / 232 m
Coordinates 64°14′22″S56°37′50″W / 64.23944°S 56.63056°W / -64.23944; -56.63056
Map
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SAWB
Location of the airport in Antarctica
Marambio Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
05/23

01/19

1,260x35

1,600x40

4,118x115

5,249x131

Graded earth [1]

Graded earth [2]

Source: GCM [3] SkyVector [4]

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]

Contents

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.

A C-130 Hercules over the airstrip AterrizajeHrcules.jpg
A C-130 Hercules over the airstrip

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

References

  1. ↑ "Base Marambio". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Base Marambio". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Airport information for Base Marambio Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
  4. ↑ "Base Marambio Airport". SkyVector. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Base Antártica Marambio" (in Spanish). Fundación Marambio. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Marambio Station / Seymour Island". French-Polar-Team. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "Misión y Organización – Organismos y Unidades – Base Marambio" (in Spanish). Argentine Air Force. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013.



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