page_title: Marambio Base
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Marambio Base / Description
caption_attribution_description: Español: La Campaña Antártica, que se desarrolla en forma ininterrumpida desde 1904, es un trabajo conjunto entre militares y civiles para abastecer las bases y los centros de investigación con insumos, víveres, combustible y material de trabajo para el resto del año.
context_page_description: Marambio Station is a permanent, all year-round Argentine Antarctica station named after Vice-Commodore Gustavo Argentino Marambio, an Antarctic aviation pioneer. It is located in Marambio Island, Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, some 100 km from the coastal civilian village of Esperanza.
  At the time of its construction it was the first airfield in Antarctica and is still one of the most frequently used ones due to its suitability for wheeled landing, for which it is called "Antarctica's Entrance Door". It is also Argentina's most important station in the continent.
  As of 2014 Marambio is one of 13 research stations in Antarctica operated by Argentina.
context_section_description: As of 2014 Marambio has 27 buildings with a total covered area exceeding 20,000 m² (220,000 sq ft; 2.0 ha). It can host a permanent crew of 45 men and a large complement of scientific personnel, totaling about 200 people, although on average it is populated with 55 members in winter and 150 in summer.
  Some of the facilities are: main, dining and recreation halls; emergency house with 28-bed capacity; personnel accommodation buildings; aircraft parking platform; flight deck; airline passenger terminal; flight ground support equipment; library; mail office; gym; chapel; laundry; kitchen; two freezing chambers; snow melter; satellite dish for television and internet; radio communications station; towing and personnel carrier vehicles (including tractors, trucks and forklifts); road maintenance tools and vehicles (several snow dozers, tracked loaders and graders); mechanical, carpentry, blacksmithing, turning, plumbing and electricity workshops; laboratory with substations for APT (Automatic Picture Transmission) satellite imagery receiver, ozone and uv light measurement, sounding balloon and radiosonde setup and launching, a MBI International Meteorological Center, and others; several warehouses and deposits; fuel storage array; potable water and sewerage network; incinerator and waste disposal module, and firefighting system.
  The station also has CATV and public and internal mobile phone service.
  The 45 m² (480 sq ft) medical suite is attended by one doctor and three paramedics, and has three beds and x-ray, dentistry, coronary care and telemedicine facilities. Over 492,000 l (108,000 imp gal; 130,000 US gal) of Antarctic gasoil are used every year for transportation, and to feed the 1,000 kW main power plant with its three Caterpillar generators. The station also has a sewage treatment plant. Most buildings are connected together by risen metal footpaths to isolate them from snow and ice.
  On 2010 the Argentine company CITEDEF designed and installed a wind generator on the station.
caption: Main building
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