Potential Airfield Sites in Antarctica for Wheeled Aircraft

• Main Author: Swithinbank, Charles
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1991
• Subjects: Terminal Flight Facilities; Geology; Geochemistry and Mineralogy; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *LANDING FIELDS; *AIRPORTS; *ANTARCTIC REGIONS; *TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT; *ICE; TERRAIN; REGIONS; COSTS; CONSTRUCTION; IMAGES; WHEELS; TRANSPORT; OPERATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; NUMBERS; RUNWAYS; POLAR CAP; PHOTOGRAPHS; GLACIERS; LAND ICE; COLD REGIONS; SITES; AIRCRAFT; MAJORITIES; MAINTENANCE; POLAR REGIONS; Antarctic; Patriot Hills; Ice Runway; Mill Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA249503; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA249503

This is a report on a search for possible or potential airfield sites in Antarctica, using aerial photographs and satellite images supplemented by other data. A few sites are on ice-free ground but the majority are on inland blue ice fields. Earlier studies of potential airfields on Antarctic glacie...