With Antarctica lacking conventional paved runways, the aircraft instead landed on a glacial 'blue ice runway' 3,000 metres (9,842ft) long and 60 metres (196ft) wide at Troll Airfield, where the ...

Cars and trucks have difficulty driving in icy conditions, so how difficult is it to land much a heavier and faster airplane ...

The runway is an important international gateway for Antarctic science and recent works ensure we can continue to offer other aircraft facilities to ferry cargo, scientists and support staff to ...

The jet, which landed on a different Antarctic runway called Wolf's Fang, carried camp supplies for luxury tour operator White Desert. The company still uses the plane to ferry cargo and tourists.

Tours to the interior of Antarctica, a growing segment ... It took a while to remove the plane from the runway, so some passengers couldn’t get to Frei Station and therefore board their ship ...

Additionally, Victor, a digital private jet charter, flies to several Antarctic locations. The charter licenses flights to ...

A stay in Antarctica is a rare opportunity filled with ... we land on a three kilometer long ice runway where we quickly change into our polar gear. It is already minus 10. We drove across the ...

Any potential traveler to Antarctica who gets even the slightest bit queasy in rough waters views a sail to the White Continent with trepidation. The reason is the Drake Passage, the channel that ...