Wideawake Airfield, Ascension Island


  • Photographer
    Jon Tonks
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Jon Tonks, Photographer
  • Date of Photograph
    August 2007
  • Technical Info
    Medium Format 6x6

Ascension Island is a British Territory that lies deep in the South Atlantic Ocean, somewhere between Brazil and Angola. With no indigenous population the island has become host to a mysterious mixture of users; from communications, surveillance and national security to British and American Military. The runway on the Island was built during World War II to allow US planes a refueling point en route to Europe, and later became a vital to the UK during the Falklands conflict.

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