The Most Unique Airports in the World

Jordana Weiss | April 30, 2018

11. McMurdo Station

McMurdo Station is an Antarctic research center operated by the United States. It’s located on the southern tip of Ross Island, on McMurdo Sound. To access McMurdo Station, visitors can come in on ATVs from the harbor, or they can choose to fly in.

The three airfields at McMurdo Station are all made of snow and ice, and are kept in pristine condition to ensure that massive supply and personnel aircraft can land at all times. When the Ice Runway breaks up in the spring, aircraft are redirected to the two other airfields, Pegasus Field or Williams Field.

McMurdo Station, #RossIsland, #Antarctica, as seen from the radar dome at the top of the hill on January 22, 2017. Observation Hill, at 750 feet tall, in the middle distance, the flat white to the right of the hill is the annual sea ice of #McMurdoSound.

Photo by Mike Lucibella. pic.twitter.com/MQNk27b5Ai

— Tom Maloney (@t2gunner) January 30, 2018

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