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U.S. Marines surveyors help rebuild the mountaintop runway with a concrete airstrip on storied Santa Catalina Island, Calif., Friday, January 25, 2019. About 100 Marines and sailors began working on the island this month under an agreement with the I Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton, California, and the Catalina Island Conservancy. The airport dates to 1941, when it was built by leveling two mountaintops and filling in the remaining canyon to create the 3,000-foot (914-meter) main runway, which sits at an elevation of about 1,600 feet (488 meters) about 10 miles from the city of Avalon. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)
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