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2005 – Ice Challenger Expedition travelled to the South Pole in a six-wheeled vehicle. [21] ... 2007–2008 – British Army Antarctic Expedition 2007–2008 [26]
Mount Kirkpatrick holds one of the most important fossil sites in Antarctica, the Hanson Formation. Because Antarctica used to be warmer and supported dense conifer and cycad forest, and because all the continents were fused into a giant supercontinent called Pangaea , many ancient Antarctic wildlife share relatives elsewhere in the world.
The station opened in 2001, and is the logistic base for the ice coring project in Dronning Maud Land, the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica . [21] The station is supplied by a convoy of 6 towing vehicles, which resupply it twice a year. [22]
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition; Second German Antarctic Expedition; Shackleton–Rowett Expedition; List of Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922; South Polar Times; South Pole–Queen Maud Land Traverse; Southern Cross Expedition; Southern Ocean Expedition; Swedish Antarctic Expedition
Transport in Antarctica 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 Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton and his second time to the Continent.
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.
The Antarctic Snow Cruiser emerging from its winter berth in 1940. The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was a vehicle designed under the direction of Thomas Poulter, intended to facilitate transport in Antarctica during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–41). [1]