Antarctic Runway for Jets
27.05.2005 - Other
The Australian Government has approved the building of an ice runway and supporting an air link between Hobart, Australia and Australia's Casey Station in Antarctica.
Australian Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell, said the Australian Government had announced that it would spend .3 million over four years to develop an Australia-Antarctic intercontinental air link.
This would allow scientists to more closely monitor the Southern Ocean and deliver scientists to their Antarctic destinations more efficiently. Feasibility studies, including runway construction trials, had already been completed. Work on the runway would move into full swing this coming summer season in preparation for trial flights scheduled to start in 2006-07, with a regular service due to start in 2007-08.
