9 passenger airliners that have landed on Antarctica's rugged runways made out of blue ice

• Every year, hundreds of scientists, athletes, and tourists travel to Antarctica on passenger jetliners.
• These planes land on rugged, unpaved runways mostly made of blue ice and compacted snow.
• Norse Atlantic Airways recently landed a Boeing 787 Dreamliner on there in a world first.

Antarctic aviation dates back to 1928 when famed Australian military pilot George Hubert Wilkins flew a tiny Lockheed Vega 1 monoplane across 1,000 miles of previously uncharted white desert.