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  2. <title>Antarctica: Communications</title>
  3. <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Antarctica
  4. Communications</hdr><body>
  5. <p>Ports: none; offshore anchorage only at most coastal stations
  6. </p>
  7. <p>Airports: 42 landing facilities at different locations
  8. operated by 15 national governments party to the Treaty; one
  9. additional air facility operated by commercial (nongovernmental)
  10. tourist organization; helicopter pads at 28 of these locations;
  11. runways at 10 locations are gravel, sea ice, glacier ice, or
  12. compacted snow surface suitable for wheeled fixed-wing aircraft;
  13. no paved runways; 16 locations have snow-surface skiways limited
  14. to use by ski-equipped planes - 11 runways/skiways 1,000 to
  15. 3,000 m, 3 runways/skiways less than 1,000 m, 5 runways/skiways
  16. greater than 3,000 m, and 7 of unspecified or variable length;
  17. airports generally subject to severe restrictions and
  18. limitations resulting from extreme seasonal and geographic
  19. conditions; airports do not meet ICAO standards; advance approval
  20. from governments required for landing
  21. </p></body></article></text>
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