List of disasters in Antarctica by death toll

The following is a list of known disasters in Antarctica which have resulted in fatalities. It includes disasters which happened on land, as well as in the waters surrounding the continent.

Year Type Fatalities Incident Location Comments
1819 Shipwreck 644 San Telmo (Spanish ship)[1] Drake Passage, Southern Ocean
1979 Aircraft 257 Air New Zealand Flight 901[2] Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica
2019 Aircraft 38 2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash Drake Passage, Antarctica Aircraft lost en route from Chile to Teniente R. Marsh Airport, King George Island
2010 Shipwreck 22 South Korean trawler Insung [3] Ross Sea, near the McMurdo Station 5 confirmed dead, 17 missing and presumed dead[4]
1976 Aircraft 11 Livingston Island plane crash[5] Livingston Island, Antarctica
1985 Aircraft 10 Nelson Island plane crash[6] Nelson Island, Antarctica
1960 Fire (building) 8 Mirny Station fire[7][8][9] Mirny Station, Antarctica
1823 Shipwreck 7 Jenny[10] Drake Passage, Southern Ocean Most likely a legend
1958 Aircraft 7 Cape Hallett Bay plane crash[11] Cape Hallett Bay, Antarctica 6 survivors
1966 Aircraft 6 Ross Ice Shelf plane crash[12] Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1986 Aircraft 6 Philippi Glacier plane crash[13] Philippi Glacier, Antarctica
1961 Aircraft 5 Wilkes Station plane crash[14] Wilkes Station, Antarctica
1956 Aircraft 4 McMurdo Station plane crash[15] McMurdo Station, Antarctica 4 survivors
1994 Aircraft 4 Rothera Research Station plane crash[16] near the Rothera Research Station, Antarctica
2010 Aircraft 4 Terre Adélie helicopter crash[17] near the Dumont d'Urville Station, Terre Adélie, Antarctica
1946 Aircraft 3 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash[18] Thurston Island, Antarctica
1958 Aircraft 3 Marguerite Bay plane crash[19] Marguerite Bay, Antarctica 4 survivors
1965 Tractor 3 Tractor falls into crevasse [20] Milorgknausane nunataks, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
1979 Aircraft 3 Molodezhnaya Ice Station plane crash[21] near Molodezhnaya Ice Station, Antarctica 11 survivors
1989 Aircraft 3 Mirny Station plane crash[22] Mirny Station, Antarctica
1999 Aircraft 3 Terre Adélie helicopter crash[23] near the Dumont d'Urville Station, Terre Adélie, Antarctica
2013 Aircraft 3 Mount Elizabeth plane crash[24] Mount Elizabeth, Antarctica
2012 Shipwreck 3 Jeong Woo 2 (South Korean fishing vessel)[25] Ross Sea, near the McMurdo Station 3 missing were presumed dead, 7 burn injuries, 2 serious
1929 Aircraft 2 Whaler scouting flight crash[26][27] west of Scott Island, Antarctica
1948 Fire (building) 2 Hope Bay fire[28] Base D, Hope Bay, Graham Land, Antarctica 1 survivor
1959 Aircraft 2 Marble Point plane crash[29] Marble Point, Antarctica 3 survivors
1969 Aircraft 2 Mount McLennan helicopter crash[30] Taylor Valley, Antarctica 6 survivors
1987 Aircraft 2 D-59 plane crash[31][32] 1390 km northwest of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica 11 survivors
2008 Aircraft 2 Neumayer Station III helicopter crash[33] near Neumayer Station III, Antarctica 3 survivors
2012 Fire (building) 2 Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station fire[34] Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Base, Antarctica 1 minor burn injury
2018 Work accident 2 2018 McMurdo mishap[35] McMurdo Station, Antarctica Two contractors asphyxiated maintaining fire suppression system
2003 Attack by a Leopard Seal 1 Snorkeling scientist dragged underwater by a Leopard Seal and drowned.[36][37][note 1] Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica
2008 Fire (building) 1 Progress Station fire[38] Progress Station, Antarctica 2 serious burn injuries
2016 Snowmobile 1 McMurdo Shear Zone Accident[39] McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica
2016 Aircraft 1 Pilot crevasse fatality unloading sling[40] Davis Station, Antarctica
2022 Rogue wave 1 Viking Polaris cruise ship[41] Drake Passage, Southern Ocean 4 injuries

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ See also: Leopard seal- Relationship with humans

References

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  1. ^ "San Telmo". Wreck Site. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  2. ^ "The Story of Flight 901". The Erebus Story. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  3. ^ "South Korean ship sinks off Antarctica, at least 5 dead". Reuters. December 13, 2010. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  4. ^ "Five dead, 17 missing after Korean fishing vessel, No.1 In Sung, sinks in Southern Ocean". The Old Salt Blog. December 13, 2010. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  5. ^ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  7. ^ Griffiths, Tom (2007). Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica. Harvard University Press. p. 149.
  8. ^ "Fire at Soviet Base In Antarctic Kills 8; Eight Scientists Die in Fire At Soviet Base in the Antarctic". The New York Times. 20 August 1960.
  9. ^ "Загадки истории – Пожар в Антарктиде" (in Russian).
  10. ^ Rogers, SA (14 June 2010). "Real Ghost Ships: 10 Mysterious Abandoned Sea Vessels". Web Urbanist. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  11. ^ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  12. ^ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  13. ^ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  14. ^ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 170385". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  15. ^ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 154757". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  16. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  17. ^ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 78943". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  18. ^ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 179701". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  19. ^ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 172659". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  20. ^ "Bailey, Wild and Wilson". British Antarctic Monument Trust. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  21. ^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-14FKM CCCP-04193 Molodezhnaya". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  22. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  23. ^ Butler, Declan. "Fatal helicopter crash at French Antarctic research base". Nature.com. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  24. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  25. ^ "Fire aboard ship off Antarctica kills three fishermen". The Guardian. 11 January 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  26. ^ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 34225". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  27. ^ Copyright, Russell Owen (31 December 1929). "Whaling fliers lost in Antarctic Sea". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  28. ^ "Antarctica Fire History". CoolAntarctica.com. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  29. ^ "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  30. ^ "Thomas E. Berg". southpolestation.com. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  31. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  32. ^ "Two killed in airplane crash in East Antarctica". southpolestation.com. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  33. ^ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 15183". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  34. ^ Brocchetto, Marilia (26 February 2012). "Fire at Antarctica station kills 2 Brazilian sailors". CNN. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  35. ^ "Board of Investigation Final Report: Double Contractor Employee Fatality Mishap | NSF - National Science Foundation" (PDF). www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  36. ^ Leopard seal attacks and kills British scientist snorkelling off Antarctic coast, The Independent, 24 July 2003.
  37. ^ Seal kills scientist in Antarctic, CNN, 23 July 2003.
  38. ^ Valery, Lukin. "One dead in fire at Progress Station". Adventure Antarctica. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  39. ^ Kaplan, Sarah. "Climate scientist Gordon Hamilton, 50, dies in accident in Antarctica". The Washington Post. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  40. ^ "Court finds Commonwealth responsible for Antarctic helicopter pilot's death". ABC News. 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  41. ^ "'Rogue wave' strikes Antarctic cruise ship, leaves 1 dead and 4 injured". ABC News. 5 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
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