Most planes land on long, flat, hard runways, but planes in Antarctica have to land on ice on the frozen ocean. It's so cold down here that most of the ocean is frozen all year long! Great big planes land right on the ice. It's called an ice runway or skiway. Some of the planes still use wheels to land, but some even have skis instead of wheels. These are pictures of a really big Air Force jet called a C-17 landing and taking off from the ice runway here at McMurdo Station.
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