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Once the preserve of explorers and sea dogs, the Drake is today a daunting challenge for an ever-increasing number of travelers to Antarctica — and not just because it takes up to 48 hours to ...
The South Pole Traverse, also called the South Pole Overland Traverse (SPoT), [2] or McMurdo–South Pole Highway [3] is an approximately 995-mile-long (1,601 km) flagged route over compacted snow and ice [4] 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. [5]
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 ...
Polar night with an Aurora australis and the Milky Way visible behind the NOAA Atmospheric Research Observatory. Typical of inland Antarctica, Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station experiences an ice cap climate with BWk precipitation patterns. [30] The peak season of summer lasts from December to mid February.
In the Faroe Islands, wild, unpredictable weather — fierce winds and rain, and thick fog that settles like a curtain — can sometimes make travel by car or ferry problematic.
He stopped in Antarctica, and as night fell in the Western Hemisphere, he traversed South America and the Caribbean, Greenland and then Canada and the U.S., delivering more than 8 billion gifts ...
Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica.These countries have tended to place their Antarctic scientific observation and study facilities within their respective claimed territories; however, a number of such facilities are located outside of the area claimed by their ...
A multi-day lake effect snow event off Lake Erie is ongoing, making travel "very difficult" throughout the Great Lakes region as a total of 3-12 inches of new snow was produced near Cleveland ...