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This is an alphabetical list of airports in Antarctica, including airstrips, heliports and skiways (snow runways). List. Airport name ... East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Map of Antarctica with Eastern Antarctica seen to the right. Image of a variety of ice types off the coast of East Antarctica. East Antarctica, also called Greater Antarctica, constitutes the majority (two-thirds) of the Antarctic continent, lying primarily in the Eastern Hemisphere south of the Indian Ocean, and separated from West Antarctica by the Transantarctic Mountains.
The airport is named in memory of Lieutenant Rodolfo Marsh, who in the 1930s helped pioneer air routes to the Magallanes Region of Chile, mainly using Sikorsky S43 flying boats. He was killed when his plane, the S43 "Chiloé", crashed on 2 June 1937 flying from Puerto Montt to Punta Arenas. The crash occurred during bad weather killing all four ...
Rothera Air Facility. / 67.567748°S 68.127689°W / -67.567748; -68.127689. Rothera Research Station is the BAS logistics centre for the Antarctic and home of well-equipped biological laboratories and facilities for a wide range of research. The station is situated on a rock and raised beach promontory at the southern extremity of ...
Here the blue areas are the reflections of the Eastern Hemisphere. In geography, the antipode ( / ˈæntɪˌpoʊd, ænˈtɪpədi /) of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it. A pair of points antipodal ( / ænˈtɪpədəl /) to each other are situated such that a straight line connecting the two would ...
Phoenix Airfield (ICAO: NZFX) is an airstrip in Antarctica opened in early 2017, designed to replace the Pegasus Field's role in serving McMurdo Station.. In last few years of Pegasus Field's operation, it had been plagued with warmer temperatures combined with dust and dirt blown in from nearby Black Island, causing excessive melting making the runway unusable at the end of the summer
Williams Field. / 77.86750°S 167.05667°E / -77.86750; 167.05667. Williams Field or Willy Field ( ICAO: NZWD) is a United States Antarctic Program airfield in Antarctica. Williams Field consists of two snow runways located on approximately 8 meters (25 ft) of compacted snow, lying on top of 8–10 ft of ice, [3] floating over 550 ...
Vostok Research Station is around 1,301 kilometres (808 mi) from the Geographic South Pole, at the middle of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet . Vostok is located near the southern pole of inaccessibility and the south geomagnetic pole, making it one of the optimal places to observe changes in the Earth's magnetosphere.