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2. South Pole Traverse - Wikipedia

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   The South Pole Traverse, also called the South Pole Overland Traverse, [2] is an approximately 995-mile-long (1,601 km) flagged route over compacted snow and ice [3] in Antarctica that links McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, both operated by the National Science Foundation of the United States. [4]

3. Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station - Wikipedia

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   The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United ... (7,400 m 2) building with two floor levels that cost US ... all official travel from the pole goes ...

4. Tourism in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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   A party of skiers arrives after traversing overland to the South Pole, December 2009. Tourism started in Antarctica by the sea in the 1960s. Air overflights started in the 1970s with sightseeing flights by airliners from Australia and New Zealand, and were resumed in the 1990s. The (summer) tour season lasts from November to March.

5. Transport in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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   This is the first time tire based vehicles successfully travel on the Antarctica high plateau. In 2005, a team of six people took part in the Ice Challenger Expedition. Travelling in a specially designed six wheel drive vehicle, the team completed the journey from the Antarctic coast at Patriot Hills to the geographic South Pole in 69 hours. In ...

6. Nimrod Expedition - Wikipedia

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   The farthest south record of the Nimrod Expedition stood for less than three years, until Amundsen reached the South Pole on 15 December 1911. For his trail-breaking achievements, Shackleton received a fulsome tribute from Amundsen: "What Nansen is to the North, Shackleton is to the South". [ 93 ]

7. List of countries by southernmost point - Wikipedia

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   South Pole: 90°00′S: Antarctic Circle: 66°33′39"S South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom) Southern Thule: 59°42′S Chile: Águila Islet, Diego Ramírez Islands Cape Froward (mainland) 56°32′S 53°53′S Argentina: Southernmost point of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego Monte Dinero (mainland) 55°04′S 52°24′S ...