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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]

Marambio Airport
Marambio's runway looking northeast
  • IATA: none
  • ICAO: SAWB
Summary
Airport typePublic/Military
OperatorGovernment of Argentina
ServesMarambio Base
LocationSeymour Island
Elevation AMSL760 ft / 232 m
Coordinates64°14′22″S 56°37′50″W
Map
SAWB
Location of the airport in Antarctica
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23

01/19

1,260x35

1,600x40

4,118x115

5,249x131

Graded earth[1]

Graded earth[2]

Source: GCM[3] SkyVector[4]

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
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.




На других языках


- [en] Marambio Airport

[es] Aeródromo Marambio

El aeródromo Marambio[5] es el más antiguo de toda la Antártida y funciona como puente aéreo entre Argentina y sus bases antárticas. El nombre, al igual que el de la Base Marambio en donde se encuentra, homenajea a Gustavo Argentino Marambio, pionero de la aviación argentina sobre el sector antártico.



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