Airborne tourism in the Antarctic

ABSTRACT There are two classes of airborne tourism in Antarctica: overflights without landing, and fl ights including landing. The earliest overflight was in 1956, but there were no regular flights until 1977, when Qantas and Air New Zealand began overflights with wide-bodied aircraft. A crash on Mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Swithinbank, Charles
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1993
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Antarctic
The Antarctic
South Shetland Islands
New Zealand
South Pole
The Sentinel
Mount Erebus
Landing The
Heritage Range
Sentinel Range
Antarc*
Antarctica
Polar Record
South pole
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740002355x
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740002355X

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