| 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
|
|
| 1823
|
Shipwreck
|
7
|
Jenny[7] |
Drake Passage, Southern Ocean
|
Most likely a legend
|
| 1958
|
Aircraft
|
7
|
Cape Hallett Bay plane crash[8] |
Cape Hallett Bay, Antarctica
|
6 survivors
|
| 1966
|
Aircraft
|
6
|
Ross Ice Shelf plane crash[9] |
Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
|
|
| 1986
|
Aircraft
|
6
|
Philippi Glacier plane crash[10] |
Philippi Glacier, Antarctica
|
|
| 1961
|
Aircraft
|
5
|
Wilkes Station plane crash[11] |
Wilkes Station, Antarctica
|
|
| 1956
|
Aircraft
|
4
|
McMurdo Station plane crash[12] |
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
|
4 survivors
|
| 1994
|
Aircraft
|
4
|
Rothera Research Station plane crash[13] |
near the Rothera Research Station, Antarctica
|
|
| 2010
|
Aircraft
|
4
|
Terre Adélie helicopter crash[14] |
near the Dumont d’Urville Station, Terre Adélie, Antarctica
|
|
| 1946
|
Aircraft
|
3
|
Antarctica PBM Mariner crash[15] |
Thurston Island, Antarctica
|
|
| 1958
|
Aircraft
|
3
|
Marguerite Bay plane crash[16] |
Marguerite Bay, Antarctica
|
4 survivors
|
| 1965
|
Tractor
|
3
|
Tractor falls into crevasse [17] |
Milorgknausane nunataks, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
|
|
| 1979
|
Aircraft
|
3
|
Molodezhnaya Ice Station plane crash[18] |
near Molodezhnaya Ice Station, Antarctica
|
11 survivors
|
| 1989
|
Aircraft
|
3
|
Mirny Station plane crash[19] |
Mirny Station, Antarctica
|
|
| 1999
|
Aircraft
|
3
|
Terre Adélie helicopter crash[20] |
near the Dumont d’Urville Station, Terre Adélie, Antarctica
|
|
| 2013
|
Aircraft
|
3
|
Mount Elizabeth plane crash[21] |
Mount Elizabeth, Antarctica
|
|
| 2012
|
Shipwreck
|
3
|
Jeong Woo 2 (South Korean fishing vessel)[22] |
Ross Sea, near the McMurdo Station
|
3 missing were presumed dead, 7 burn injuries, 2 serious
|
| 1929
|
Aircraft
|
2
|
Whaler scouting flight crash[23][24] |
west of Scott Island, Antarctica
|
|
| 1948
|
Fire (building)
|
2
|
Hope Bay fire[25] |
Base D, Hope Bay, Graham Land, Antarctica
|
1 survivor
|
| 1959
|
Aircraft
|
2
|
Marble Point plane crash[26] |
Marble Point, Antarctica
|
3 survivors
|
| 1969
|
Aircraft
|
2
|
Mount McLennan helicopter crash[27] |
Taylor Valley, Antarctica
|
6 survivors
|
| 1987
|
Aircraft
|
2
|
D-59 plane crash[28][29] |
1390 km northwest of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
|
11 survivors
|
| 2008
|
Aircraft
|
2
|
Neumayer-Station III helicopter crash[30] |
near Neumayer-Station III, Antarctica
|
3 survivors
|
| 2012
|
Fire (building)
|
2
|
Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station fire[31] |
Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Base, Antarctica
|
1 minor burn injury
|
| 2018
|
Work accident
|
2
|
2018 McMurdo mishap[32] |
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
|
Two contractors asphyxiated maintaining fire suppression system
|
| 2008
|
Fire (building)
|
1
|
Progress Station fire[33] |
Progress Station, Antarctica
|
2 serious burn injuries
|
| 2016
|
Snowmobile
|
1
|
McMurdo Shear Zone Accident[34] |
McMurdo Shear Zone, Antarctica
|
|
| 2016
|
Aircraft
|
1
|
Pilot crevasse fatality unloading sling[35] |
Davis Station, Antarctica
|
|
| 2022
|
Rogue wave
|
1
|
Viking Polaris cruise ship[36] |
Drake Passage, Southern Ocean
|
4 injuries
|
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