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the site of the first powered aircraft flight in Antarctica.

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Australian Hubert Wilkins made the first powered flight in Antarctica on November 16, 1928, taking off from a "runway" on Deception Island in his Lockheed Vega monoplane, Los Angeles, and flying for 20 minutes. A month later Wilkings and Eielson flew another Vega, the San Francisco, 2100km to about 71 deg 20' S along the Peninsula.

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