Williams Field
Williams Field or Willy Field is a United States Antarctic Program airfield in Antarctica. Williams Field consists of two snow runways located on approximately 8 meters of compacted snow, lying on top of 8–10 ft of ice, floating over 550 meters of water.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Meteorological station
- Description: airstrip in Antarctica
- Also known as: “NZWD”, “Williams Airfield”, “Willy Field”, and “Willy’s Field”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scott Base and Hut Point Peninsula.
Scott Base
Hamlet
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Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research station at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim. Scott Base is situated 5 km west of Williams Field.
Hut Point Peninsula
Locality
Photo: Mike Martoccia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula. Hut Point Peninsula is situated 6 km northwest of Williams Field.
Fortress Rocks
Locality
Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from 2 to 3 nautical miles wide and 15 nautical miles long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica. McMurdo Station and Scott Base are Antarctic research stations located on the Hut Point Peninsula. Fortress Rocks is situated 7 km west of Williams Field.
Williams Field
- Category: airstrip
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“Williams Field” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Williams Field (tugpahanan)”
- Cebuano: “Williams Field”
- Dutch: “Williams Field”
- French: “Williams Field”
- German: “Williams Field”
- Japanese: “ウィリアムズ飛行場”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “NZWD”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Williams Field”
- Norwegian: “Williams Field”
- Persian: “فرودگاه صحرایی ولیامز”
- Spanish: “Campo Williams”
- Swedish: “Williams Field (flygplats)”
- Swedish: “Williams Field”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи саҳро влиомз”
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