- Patriot Hills
Patriot Hills (coord|80|18|S|081|21|W|) the only private seasonally occupied camp in
Antarctica . Located in the Heritage Range,Ellsworth Mountains next to a group of hills that gives it its name. Operated by [http://www.antarctic-logistics.com/index.html: Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions LLC] (ALE), the only organization providing expedition support and tours to the interior of Antarctica. [ [http://www.antarctic-logistics.com/index.html Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions] ]Infobox Airport
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city-served = Patriot Hills
location =South Pole ,Antarctica
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footnotes =The camp is situated near a rare, naturally-occurring,
blue ice runway [ [http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/stis1993/opp93103/opp93103.txt Initial environmental evaluation – development of blue-ice and compacted-snow runways] , National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs, April 9, 1993] that allows wheeled jet cargo aircraft to land. From that point, transportation to theSouth Pole andVinson Massif is byTwin Otter ski planes.During the months of November to January, when the weather is the least hostile, jet charter flights are operated from
Punta Arenas, Chile to the camp. The tents that comprise most of the buildings are stored each winter in an underground tunnels system which has been dug out of the snow pack that is hundreds of feet thick.References
Further reading
Swithinbank, C.W.M. 1991. Potential airfield sites in Antarctica for wheeled aircraft. Hanover, USA, CRREL Report 19-24.
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