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The cars started from Novo airbase at S70° 49' E11° 38', establish a route onto the plateau through the crevasse areas in the Shcherbakov Mountain Range driving nearly 1,500 km (930 mi) to the start line of the ski race. For the return journey each car covered between 5,400 and 5,800 km (3,400 and 3,600 mi) with one fuel depot on the way.
If you book far enough in advance, you can snag a one-way ticket from San Francisco to New York for around $150. However, depending on seasonality, flights can skyrocket to the thousands, so keep ...
The Dunedin Range was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960–63. It was named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for the city of Dunedin, New Zealand which over the years has had a close association with Antarctic expeditions; also in recognition of the friendship and cooperation of its citizens ...
The Gamburtsev Mountain Range (also known as the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains) is a subglacial mountain range located in East Antarctica, just underneath the lofty Dome A, near the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility. [1] The range was discovered by the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958 and is named for Soviet geophysicist Grigoriy A ...
The Herbert Range) is a range in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica, extending from the edge of the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Axel Heiberg Glacier and Strom Glacier Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) for Walter W. Herbert , leader of the Southern Party of the New Zealand GSAE (1961 ...
The Ford Ranges lie along the coast of Marie Byrd Land to the south and east of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf and to the east of Block Bay.The ranges and major glaciers are, from southwest to northeast, Hershey Ridge, Haines Mountains, Hammond Glacier, Swope Glacier, Mackay Mountains, Boyd Glacier, Sarnoff Mountains, Allegheny Mountains, Clark Mountains, Arthur Glacier, Denfeld Mountains, Crevasse ...
The Fed cut its federal funds rate — the interest rate banks charge each other for short-term loans — by 0.25 percentage points, lowered the rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, down from its ...
Forrestal Range in Antarctica The Forrestal Range ( 83°00′S 049°30′W / 83.000°S 49.500°W / -83.000; -49.500 ( Forrestal Range ) ) is a largely snow-covered mountain range , about 65 nautical miles (120 km; 75 mi) long, standing east of Dufek Massif and the Neptune Range in the Pensacola Mountains , Antarctica