Marambio Airport

01/19 1,600x40 5,249x131 Graded earth[2] 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.

[6] The airport control tower is 12 m (39 ft) high.

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.

A C-130 Hercules over the airstrip