Last flight from sea-ice field
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) SCOTT BASE, Jan. 2. The last aircraft to service McMurdo Station and Scott Base this summer from the sea-ice runway took off for Christchurch yesterday as an American icebreaker began opening a channel to McMurdo. The sea-ice runway complex was dismantled practically overnight before the annual break-up of the ocean on which it is built. From now until the end of the summer, ski-equipped Hercules of the United States Navy will use the Williams Field runway built on permanent ice a few miles away. The United States Coast Guard icebreaker. Glacier, has begun ramming a channel through six miles of sea ice to McMurdo Station. This will give the Navy supply vessels access to the American base.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34041, 3 January 1976, Page 14
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