Rothera Air Facility

Rothera Air Facility is an airfield serving Rothera Research Station, the British Antarctic Survey logistics centre for the Antarctic and home of well-equipped biological laboratories and facilities for a wide range of research.

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Type: Aerodrome
Description: airport in Antarctica
Also known as: “EGAR”, “Punta Rothera Airport”, “Rothera Research Station”, and “Rothera Research Station Airfield”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dirck Gerritsz and Killingbeck Island.

Dirck Gerritsz

Dwelling

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Dirck Gerritsz Laboratory is a Dutch Antarctic research facility on Adelaide Island near Rothera Research Station. It is operated by the Netherlands Polar Programme of the Dutch Research Council and British Antarctic Survey and was opened on 27 January 2013.

Killingbeck Island

Islet

Killingbeck Island is a small island lying east of Rothera Point, off the southeast coast of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1964 for John B.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rothera Research Station.

Rothera Research Station

Hamlet

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The Rothera Research Station is a British Antarctic Survey base on the Antarctic Peninsula, located at Rothera Point, Adelaide Island. Rothera also serves as the capital of the British Antarctic Territory, a British Overseas Territory.

Rothera Air Facility

Categories: airport and transportation
Location: Argentine Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, South America
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Latitude

-67.56778° or 67° 34′ 4″ south

Longitude

-68.12764° or 68° 7′ 40″ west

Operator

British Antarctic Survey

ICAO airport code

EGAR

Open location code

374HCVJC+VW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2418868727

OpenStreetMap feature

aeroway=aerodrome

GeoNames ID

13562001

Wikidata ID

Q19844346

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Rothera Air Facility” goes by many names.

Asturian: “Aeródromu de Punta Rothera”
French: “aérodrome de Punta Rothera”
French: “Aérodrome de Punta Rothera”
German: “Rothera Air Facility”
Indonesian: “EGAR”
Japanese: “ロセラ・ポイント空港”
Spanish: “Aerodromo de Punta Rothera”
Spanish: “Aeródromo de Punta Rothera”
Turkish: “Rothera Hava Tesisi”

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