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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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
Photo: Dconnor9, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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″ southLongitude
-68.12764° or 68° 7′ 40″ westOperator
British Antarctic SurveyICAO airport code
EGAROpen location code
374HCVJC+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2418868727OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
13562001Wikidata 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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