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South Pole Traverse. 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 ...
She also holds the record for the set the record for the fastest human-powered speed record to reach the South Pole of 10 days 14 hours and 56 minutes. This still stands today. [4] Leijerstam completed the almost-650 km (400 mi) route from the Ross Ice Shelf on the edge of the Antarctic to the South Pole in just over 10 days. [4]
Awards. Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Harpreet Kaur "Preet" Chandi MBE (born 1988/1989) is a British physiotherapist and British Army medical officer who completed a solo expedition across Antarctica to the South Pole, finishing on 3 January 2022. [1][2][3] In January 2023, she recorded the longest ever solo and ...
Hannah McKeand is an English polar explorer. In 2006 she set the record for the fastest journey (man or woman) to the South Pole a 600-nautical-mile (1,100 km) journey she completed solo and in just 39 days, 9 hours and 33 minutes. [1]
Dick Smith, 1988–1989, first circumnavigation landing at both poles, in a Twin Otter. In 1992 an Air France Concorde, registration F-BTSD, achieved the fastest non-orbital circumnavigation in 32 hours 49 minutes and 3 seconds. Fred Lasby, 1994, oldest circumnavigation, at 82 years of age, in Piper Comanche.
1911–1914 – Australasian Antarctic Expedition – led by Douglas Mawson. 1914–1916 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition – led by Ernest Shackleton. 1914–1917 – Ross Sea party – led by Aeneas Mackintosh. 1920–1922 – British Graham Land Expedition – a British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope.
The Geographic South Pole is marked by the stake on the right NASA image showing Antarctica and the South Pole in 2005. The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions.
When they saw a "faint pink line on the horizon" they knew they were going in the right direction. This was the first rescue from the South Pole during winter. [5] Canada honoured the Otter crew for bravery. [6] [7] In 2021, an Airbus A340 aeroplane operated by Portuguese charter airline Hi Fly landed in Antarctica for the first time. [8]