Milan Radisics / Falconer with Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) to keep other bird away from airport, Budapest Airport, Hungary, March 2009

Michael Pitts / Eastern Island showing the WW2 airstrip which was used to launch the initial attack on the Japanese fleet for the Battle of Midway, Midway, Central Pacific.

Doug Gimesy / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) that was burnt in the Mallacoota bushfires is evacuated from the Mallacoota wildlife triage centre, carried in a crate by a RAAF crew member (left) and Forest and Wildli...

Doug Gimesy / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) that was burnt in the Mallacoota bushfires is evacuated from the Mallacoota wildlife triage centre, carried in a crate by a RAAF crew member (left) and Forest and Wildli...

Doug Gimesy / Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) that was burnt in the Mallacoota bushfires is evacuated from the Mallacoota wildlife triage centre, carried in a crate by a RAAF crew member (left) and Forest and Wildli...

Ingo Arndt / Bush plane about to land on landing strip in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, June 2009

Onne van der Wal / Aerial view of runway of Hamilton Island Airport, Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia. November 2012.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Batwa Pygmy villagers on Monkoto airstrip with 'Aviation Sans Frontier' pilots and plane. Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008-2009.

Doug Allan / C17 Globemaster drops tailgate before staff offload cargo, ice runway, American McMurdo research station, Ross Island, Antarctica.

Doug Allan / Cargo being offloaded from C17 Globemaster, ice runway, American McMurdo research station, Ross Island, Antarctica.

Doug Allan / Volcanic Mt Erebus is visible from ice airstrip where cargo is being dropped, McMurdo Station, Ross Sea, Antarctica.

Doug Allan / Sign for American Pegasus White Ice Runway, an aircraft runway that operates in summer on the Ross Ice Shelf, McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica.