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 | |||||||||||
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Marambio's runway looking northeast | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public/Military | ||||||||||
Operator | Government of Argentina | ||||||||||
Serves | Marambio Base | ||||||||||
Location | Seymour Island | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 760 ft / 232 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 64°14′22″S 56°37′50″W | ||||||||||
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![]() ![]() SAWB Location of the airport in Antarctica | |||||||||||
Runways | |||||||||||
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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]
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.
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]
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