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Wolf's Fang Runway is a runway in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. [1] Flights operate to and from the runway during summer in the Southern Hemisphere . [ 2 ] It is operated by White Desert , a British tour operator offering a commercial private jet service to Antarctica.
Antarctic Plateau 01/19 6,560 feet (2,000 m) Ice D10 Skiway ... Wolfs Fang Runway
In 2017, British explorer Hamish Harding worked with White Desert to introduce the first regular business jet service to the Antarctic. [17] On 2 November 2021, a HiFly Airbus A340-300 (9H-SOL) landed on Wolf's Fang Runway on a flight from Cape Town, becoming the largest aircraft to ever land there and the first Airbus A340 to land in Antarctica.
In Wolf’s Fang, Antarctica, in the middle of November, Becs Gentry set out on a race around the world. Three hours, 20 minutes, and 44 seconds later—as the temperature reached a frigid 3 ...
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On 2 November 2021, Hi Fly Flight 801 landed the first Airbus A340 on Antarctic blue glacial ice after a flight from Cape Town, South Africa to Wolf’s Fang Runway, Antarctica. [12] Captain Carlos Mirpuri and his crew flew the widebody aircraft; the journey was 2,500 nautical miles, flying for just over five hours each way.
Troll Airfield is an airstrip located 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi) from the research station Troll in Princess Martha Coast in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.Owned and operated by the Norwegian Polar Institute, it consists of a 3,300-by-100-metre (10,830 by 330 ft) runway on glacial blue ice on the Antarctic ice sheet.
The Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Martin Airport (IATA: TNM, ICAO: SCRM) is on King George Island, part of Chile's Antártica commune in Antarctica, and is the northernmost airport in the continent. The airport serves the nearby village of Villa Las Estrellas and the Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva.