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On 9 June 1994 Presidential Decision Directive NSC 26 ("United States Policy on the Arctic and Antarctic Regions") stated that U.S. policy toward Antarctica has four fundamental objectives: (1) protecting the relatively unspoiled environment of Antarctica and its associated ecosystems, (2) preserving and pursuing unique opportunities for ...
She built a jury rig and diverted to Cape Town where she spent two months repairing her yacht, [2] [6] before recommencing her voyage to circumnavigate Antarctica and became the first female solo sailor to circumnavigate Antarctica with one stop. [1] [7] The whole trip, including the stop in Cape Town, took 183 days 7 hours and 21 minutes. [8]
Youngest woman to cross Greenland icecap. Jade Hameister OAM (born 5 June 2001) is an Australian woman who, at age 16, became the youngest person in history to pull off the "polar hat-trick", ski to the North and South Poles, and cross the second largest polar icecap on the planet: Greenland. [1] Hameister travelled over 1,300 km on these three ...
30. Active times. All year-round. Status. Operational. Qinling Station (Chinese: 秦岭站; pinyin: Qínlǐng zhàn) is an Antarctic research station operated by the Polar Research Institute of China. It is situated on the southern edge of Inexpressible Island in Terra Nova Bay, Scott Coast, Victoria Land, on the Ross Sea coast of East Antarctica.
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. Its main target, among a range of geographical and scientific objectives, was to be first to reach the South Pole.
www.antarctica.ac.uk. Sky Blu is a forward operating station for the British Antarctic Survey located in southern Palmer Land, Antarctica. It is in an area of blue ice, an extremely hard and dense ice which has lost the air bubbles that normally cloud the ice. It provides a runway able to accommodate wheeled aircraft that are larger than can be ...
A tiny cabin in Crested Butte, Colorado, measuring just 713 square feet has hit the market for $1.25 million – or $1,753 per square foot. Don't Miss: Miami is expected to take New York's place ...
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