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Vehicles (Planes, Buses, Boats, SnowBlowers, Trucks)

Because of the extremes down here, we have the most bizarre ways to travel, move snow, build roads and other various needs of transporation.

Planes:
We fly from New Zealand to McMurdo Antarctica (8 hour flight) in US Airplanes (C130s). The planes land on the temporary sea ice for most of the season, until the ice gets too thin to hold the weight of the plane. At that point, the planes are equipped with ski's and all planes land on snow covered permanent sea ice (never melts out).

A plane with skiis instead of wheels.

Vehicles/Trucks/Snow Travel:

One of our busses that transport 30 + people at a time. The bus transports people from the airplane into McMurdo, mostly across temporary sea ice. Pictured above the bus's rear wheel has broken through the ice and is stuck.

Snow blowers clearing the ice-runway for a plane to land.

Photo of an IceBreaker, US Coast Guard ship that sails into McMurdo once a year, breaking the ice as they go. You can see the ice path they broke up, getting into port.