Marambio Airport
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]
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.
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]
The Marambio non-directional beacon (Ident: MBI) is located 0.9 nautical miles (1.7 km) east-northeast of the runway. The Marambio VOR-DME (Ident: MBI) is located on the field.[8][9][6]
References
- "Base Marambio". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 6 April 2013.
- Airport information for Base Marambio Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
- "Base Marambio Airport". SkyVector. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- "Marambio Base Airport". Google Maps. Google. 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.
- Marambio VOR
- Marambio NDB
External links
- OpenStreetMap - Gustavo Marambio Airport
- OurAirports - Marambio Base
- FallingRain - Marambio Base Airport
- Accident history for Base Marambio, Seymour Island at Aviation Safety Network