Antarctica

Sky Blu

Sky Blu is a forward operating station for the British Antarctic Survey located in southern , . It is in an area of blue ice, an extremely hard and dense ice which has lost the air bubbles that normally cloud the ice.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: antarctic field camp
  • Also known as: “Sky Blu Logistics Facility”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mende, Mount and Lanzerotti, Mount.

Peak
The Sky-Hi Nunataks are a nunatak group 8 nautical miles long, located 11 nautical miles east of and northeast of in , extending from Doppler Nunatak in the west to Arnoldy Nunatak in the east and including Mount Lanzerotti, Mount Carrara, and Mount Cahill.

Peak
The Sky-Hi Nunataks are a nunatak group 8 nautical miles long, located 11 nautical miles east of and northeast of in , extending from Doppler Nunatak in the west to Arnoldy Nunatak in the east and including Mount Mende, Mount Carrara, and Mount Cahill.

Sky Blu

Latitude
-74.85083° or 74° 51′ 3″ south
Longitude
-71.58353° or 71° 35′ 1″ west
Open location code
27QC4CX8+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 534283882
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q626914
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Satellite Map

Discover Sky Blu from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“Sky Blu” goes by many names.
  • French: “Skyblu”
  • German: “Sky Blu”
  • Latvian: “Skaiblū”
  • Latvian: “Sky Blu”
  • Latvian: “Sky-Blu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sky Blu”
  • Polish: “Sky Blu”
  • Spanish: “Aeródromo Sky Blu”
  • Spanish: “Base Sky Blu”
  • Spanish: “Sky Blu”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sky Blu Airfield and Carrara, Mount.

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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 “Sky Blu”. Photo: Apacheeng lead, CC BY-SA 3.0.