Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway
Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway is the blue ice runway for Union Glacier Camp in Antarctica. It is located in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains, on the glacier that gives it its name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: air strip in Antarctica
- Also known as: “SCGC” and “Union Glacier Airport”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Union Glacier Camp.
Union Glacier Camp
Locality
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.
The Union Glacier Camp is the only private seasonally occupied camp site located in Ellsworth Land in Antarctica. The camp is located in the Heritage Range, below the Ellsworth Mountains, on Union Glacier, that gives the camp its name. Union Glacier Camp is situated 9 km east of Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway.
Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway
- Categories: blue ice runway, administrative territorial entity, and transportation
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-79.76821° or 79° 46′ 6″ southLongitude
-83.25423° or 83° 15′ 15″ westElevation
746 metres (2,448 feet)Inception
November 2008IATA airport code
UGLICAO airport code
SCGCOpen location code
26GR6PJW+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1042061771OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
12110491Wikidata ID
Q10860241
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Tajik—“Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway” goes by many names.
- French: “Aéroport du Glacier Union”
- Indonesian: “SCGC”
- Persian: “باند پرواز اتحادیه کوه یخ بلو-آیس”
- Spanish: “Aeródromo Glaciar Unión”
- Tajik: “Банди Парвози Юнион Глашиер Блу-Айс”
- Tajik: “Бонд парвоз иттиҳодейа кӯҳ ях блу-оис”
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Highlights include Shopify Mountain and Union Glacier.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Union Glacier Blue-Ice Runway”. Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.