Ice Runway
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The Annual Sea-Ice Runway is a type of seasonal ice runway made on frozen McMurdo Sound for the U.S. Antarctic Program during the summer Antarctic field season in proximity to Hut Point Peninsula, whi
C-5 Galaxy unloading at sea ice runway, near McMurdo Station, 1999.
Control tower for the annual sea ice runway, 2007
C-5B Galaxy lands at McMurdo for Operation Deep Freeze '90
C-141 Starlifter on Ice Runway, near McMurdo Station, 1996.
Phoenix Airfield
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Phoenix Airfield is an airstrip in Antarctica opened in early 2017, designed to replace the Pegasus Field's role in serving McMurdo Station.
Ice Runway
…bases were established, but has fallen out favor in 2010s in favor of two runways on land, at Williams Field (NZWD) and the compacted snow runway at Phoenix Airfield (NZFX), which replaced Pegasus Field (NZPG) in 2017. The ice runway was prepared on frozen sea ice on open water in McMurdo Sound, so its exact location…
A U.S. Air Force C-17 tests the airfield's snow runway for wheeled aircraft, 2016
A group of engineers involved in the airfield's construction celebrates the airfield's completion, 2017