| Marambio Airport | |
| Iata: | QAB |
| Icao: | SAWB |
| Type: | Public/Military |
| Operator: | Government of Argentina |
| City-Served: | Marambio Base |
| Location: | Seymour Island |
| Elevation-F: | 760 |
| Elevation-M: | 232 |
| Coordinates: | -64.2394°N -56.6306°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 270 |
| Pushpin Label: | SAWB |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the airport in Antarctica |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 05/2301/19 |
| R1-Length-F: | 4118x1155249x131 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1260x351600x40 |
| R1-Surface: | Graded earth[1] Graded earth[2] |
| Footnotes: | Source: GCM SkyVector[3] |
Marambio Airport 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.[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.[5]
The airport control tower is 12m (39feet) 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.[6]