Antarctica airfield News
The US Air Force flight left on Monday from the gateway city of Christchurch carrying 106 passengers and crew, said Tony German, the US Antarctic programme's representative in New Zealand
He said the new arrivals will start getting ready for the summer and swap out with skeleton crews who have spent the Southern Hemisphere winter in Antarctica
The flight was delayed for three weeks by big storms, resulting in an extended six-week quarantine for those aboard.
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