Troll airfield is a 3 km air strip located near the Norwegian Troll Antarctic research station. It was constructed on the ice shelf and opened for service February 2005 to facilitate logistics for the research in the area.
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The air strip has proven popular with its users helping to cut costs on Antarctic research. C-130 Hercules, P-3 Orion and similar long range aircraft have regular flights. The runway does not limit the size of visiting aircraft. Troll airfield is only open to traffic associated with research. Commercial traffic is not served.
February 12 2005 a C-130H of the Norwegian 335 Squadron brought Queen Sonja of Norway to the Troll research station, landing at Troll airfield, making Queen Sonja the first queen to ever set foot on Antarctica
I just opened this link on a smaller monitor and had to zoom in one more level to actually see the airfield.