Thirty stations, operated by 16 national governments party to the Antarctic Treaty, have landing facilities for either helicopters and / or fixed-wing aircraft ; commercial enterprises operate two additional air facilities.

Thomas Dover led the landing party who found Selkirk.

The landing party removed four of the guns and destroyed the rest along with the fort they were mounted in, renaming the island " Nelson's Island ".

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

Already in autumn 1940 Stalin received a warning of the Dutch communist party, via the network of the Red Orchestra ( espionage ), that Hitler was preparing for a winter war by letting construct thousands of snow landing gears for the Junkers Ju 52 transport planes.

Most of the crew struggled ashore and were taken prisoner by a landing party from the destroyer.

A landing party from the vessel encounters Ralph as he desperately tries to escape the onrushing " savages ", and the British officer leading the party, at first mistaking the violence for a game, expected better from British boys.

* July 26 – French landing party raids and burns Teignmouth in Devon, England.

He leaves the rest of the landing party to explore Martian ruins.

The fort surrendered without firing a shot as the landing party approached.

The siege was broken off due to the start of the tropical rainy season, after weeks of intense fighting in which the British landing party was successfully repelled by the Spanish and native forces led by commander General Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta ( 1689 – 1741, death in aftermath of the Cartagena battle ), a Basque from the Gipuzkoa lands of Spain.

The first party came by boat by way of the Tennessee River, landing in May at " the easteward curve of the Tennessee " at Cerro Gordo.

Rather than radio for help and risk an embarrassing international incident, the captain sends a nine-man landing party headed by his second-in-command Lieutenant Yuri Rozanov ( Alan Arkin ) to find a motor launch to help free the sub from the bar.

At the beginning of The Cage, Pike and his crew are recuperating from a mission to Rigel VII during which several members of the landing party were killed by the inhabitants.

A British landing party reported that the population of Messena was close to mass starvation.

The first three occur randomly after each set of turns during a party, while " Battle " can only be triggered by landing on the corresponding space on the board.

During the Crimean War when the Royal Navy was blockading Russian Baltic ports, the busy yet still unfortified port of Liepāja was briefly captured on 17 May 1854 without a shot being fired, by a landing party of 110 men from HMS Conflict and HMS Amphion.

The landing party discovers that the planet is at roughly a late 20th-century level of technology but its society is similar to the Roman Empire.

The village of Ulvik was nearly totally destroyed on 25 April 1940, during the German invasion of Norway, when fighting erupted between a German landing party arriving in boats, and a Norwegian force on land.

On the morning of 17 June the party, its size swelled to 49 or about 60 including chief surveyor Frederick Tuckett and others who had joined the party after landing, approached the Māori camp.

In his memoirs published in 1614, Portuguese adventurer turned author, Fernão Mendes Pinto placed himself in that first landing party, although this claim has been roundly discredited and in fact contradicts with his claims to be simultaneously in Burma at the time.

A last-minute squabble over seniority and precedence led to the command of the first landing party being split.

Once ashore, Lt. Kikuchi and the two other members of his crew ( Warrant Officer Yumoto Noriyoshi and Petty Officer ( 1st Class ) Narasaki Hironori ) either refused capture and were killed, or else committed suicide when an American landing party tried to capture them.

This was not a problem for blind landing, where the distance covered by the fan-shaped beams decreased as the airplane approached the transmitters, but for use in the bombing role this would be reversed, and the system would have maximum inaccuracy over the target.

An unexpected ion storm causes a transporter malfunction, and the landing team beams aboard an unfamiliar Enterprise.

Captain Kirk beams down with a landing party and finds that the source of the time distortions, an ancient glowing ring.

* As the initial credits roll after the landing party beams up to the ship, the Guardian's visual fog effect continues uninterrupted rather than displaying a freeze-frame with each credit screen displayed.

Playing on the hunch that the planet may be deceiving, Kirk beams a landing party to the surface.

Aircraft landing lights, which are also used in open air concerts and for stage lighting, are sealed beams that have a very narrow beam spread.

Captain Kirk assembles a landing party consisting of himself, First Officer Spock, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard McCoy, and Navigator Ensign Pavel Chekov and beams down to the surface of the planet to make contact.

Spock, meanwhile, manages to locate the landing party in a minute zone of breathable atmosphere, and beams everyone, except Trelane, back to the ship by locking onto every detectable lifeform in the area.

On stardate 1704. 2, the starship USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, beams a landing team down to a research station on the planet Psi 2000, a world in the midst of breaking up.

Back in the transporter room, Scotty beams up an animal specimen from the landing party, which appears to be a small, horned, dog-like creature.

Only Sulu comes back from the first landing party, exhibiting strange behavior, and Kirk beams down with another party to investigate.

Kirk's landing party beams down just before the festival, and they seek shelter from the mobs at a nearby boarding house.

Kirk beams down to join the landing party and search for the creatures responsible.

A landing party consisting of Captain Kirk, First Officer Spock, Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy, Chief Engineer Scott, navigator Ensign Chekov, and Lieutenant Arlene Galway beams down to the facility.

The landing team beams back to the Enterprise with Johnson and his wife.

Kirk forms a landing party consisting of himself, Mr. Spock, and Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy, and beams down to the planet, known to the Federation as " 892-IV ," to investigate.

A landing party beams down to locate the source, and finds a humanoid man and a woman.

Kirk's party beams to the last coordinates of the Exeters landing party and find themselves in what resembles a Tibetan village, where two fur-clad prisoners, a man and woman, are being prepared for a beheading by warriors of Asian appearance.

Captain Kirk beams down with a landing party to investigate the planet but they find no evidence of a human settlement ever having been there.

A landing party from the Klingon ship, led by Commander Kang, beams down to the planet where they quickly capture Kirk's group.

When the ship arrives, Captain Kirk beams down with a landing party to investigate, finding a beautiful but empty metropolis, with not a single being around.

The immediate area was swept by powerful light beams from a landing beacon at RAF Bentwaters and the Orfordness lighthouse.

At low energy molecular ion beams are deposited intact ( soft landing ) At a high deposition energy a molecular ion fragments, while atomic ions penetrate further into the material, a process known as ion implantation.

In AD 1280, the bomb store of the large gunpowder arsenal at Weiyang accidentally caught fire, which produced such a massive explosion that a team of Chinese inspectors at the site a week later deduced that some 100 guards had been killed instantly, with wooden beams and pillars blown sky high and landing at a distance of over 10 li (~ 2 mi.