Troll Airfield

Troll Airfield
Basler BT-67 at Troll airfield
IATA: QAT ICAO: ENOE[1]
Summary
Airport type	Private
Owner	Norwegian Polar Institute
Serves	Troll Queen Maud Land Antarctica
Hub for	Dronning Maud Land Air Network
Elevation AMSL	1,220 m / 4,002 ft
Coordinates	71°57′19″S 2°28′03″E / 71.955389°S 2.467397°E / -71.955389; 2.467397
Map
Troll Location in Antarctica
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 07/25 3,026 9,927 Blue Ice
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Troll Airfield is an airstrip located 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi) from the research station Troll in Princess Martha Coast in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Owned and operated by the Norwegian Polar Institute, it consists of a 3,300-by-100-metre (10,830 by 330 ft) runway on glacial blue ice on the Antarctic ice sheet. The airport is located at 1,232 metres (4,042 ft) above mean sea level and is 235 kilometres (146 mi) from the coast.

The airfield opened in 2005 and serves as the center of the Dronning Maud Land Air Network (DROMLAN), a multinational cooperation to use Troll as an all-year hub to provide intercontinental traffic to Antarctica and onwards to the various research stations using aircraft suitable for inter-Antarctic operations. Intercontinental flights normally operate from Cape Town International Airport using Ilyushin 76, C-130 Hercules, P-3 Orion, Boeing 767 and similar, long-range aircraft. Feeding services to other research station is normally done either with Basler BT-67 aircraft, De Havilland DHC-6/300 Twin Otter aircraft and Dornier Do-228 aircraft and helicopters.