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  2. Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station - Wikipedia

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    The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under the jurisdiction (not sovereignty) of the United States. The station is located on the high plateau of Antarctica at 9,301 feet (2,835 m) above sea level.

  3. Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions - Wikipedia

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    Amundsen had deduced that, as the Trans-Antarctic Mountains ran northwest to southeast then if he were to meet a mountain range on his route then the time spent at the high altitude of the Antarctic plateau would be less than Scott's. [9] Scott's base was at Cape Evans on Ross Island, with access to the Trans-Antarctic mountain range to the ...

  4. Amundsen's South Pole expedition - Wikipedia

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    The first ever expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.He and four other crew members made it to the geographical south pole on 14 December 1911, [n 1] which would prove to be five weeks ahead of the competitive British party led by Robert Falcon Scott as part of the Terra Nova Expedition.

  5. 300 Club - Wikipedia

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    The 300 Club is a small number of individuals who have endured a temperature difference of 300 °F (167 °C) within minutes. The group originated at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica and has since been established in North America.

  6. South Pole - Wikipedia

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    The highest temperature ever recorded at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station was −12.3 °C (9.9 °F) on Christmas Day, 2011, [33] and the lowest was −82.8 °C (−117.0 °F) on 23 June 1982 [34] [35] [36] (for comparison, the lowest temperature directly recorded anywhere on earth was −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) at Vostok Station on 21 ...

  7. Scott Base - Wikipedia

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    Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research station at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim. It was named in honour of Captain Robert Falcon Scott , RN , leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica.

  8. Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations Project - Wikipedia

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    The Antarctic Automatic Weather Station (AWS) Project is an Antarctic research program at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison that is funded by the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The AWS project was started in 1980 by UW-Madison atmospheric sciences Professor ...

  9. 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]

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