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.
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
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
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…blown in from nearby Black Island, causing excessive melting making the runway unusable at the end of the summer season. Accordingly, Pegasus, and the Ice Runway (which has not been consistently used in recent years), were planned to be replaced with a new "Alpha Runway" near Williams Field, constructed using…
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.