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The 2017 novel South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby is set at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station of 2002-2003, prior to the opening of the new facility. The 2019 film Where'd You Go, Bernadette features the station prominently and includes scenes of its construction at the closing credits, although the actual station depicted in the film is ...
The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, photographed in 2006 After Scott's retreat from the pole in January 1912, the location remained unvisited for nearly 18 years. On 28 November 1929, US Navy Commander (later Rear-Admiral ) Richard E. Byrd and three others completed the first aircraft flight over the South Pole. [ 20 ]
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]
The Jack F. Paulus Skiway (ICAO: NZSP) is an airport located at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station at the South Pole. The station has a runway for aircraft, 3658 m / 12000 ft long. Between October and February, there are several flights per week of ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules aircraft from McMurdo Station to supply the station.
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.
A combination of an exceptionally dry period - downtown Los Angeles has only received 0.16 inches (0.4cm) of rain since October - and powerful offshore gusts known as the Santa Ana winds have ...
Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station: 26–36 GHz 13-element interferometer measuring anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. [8] South Pole Telescope (SPT) Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station: 95–350 GHz 10-m microwave telescope making observations of clusters using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. [9]
Huairou Solar Observing Station: Beijing, China Hubble Space Telescope: 1990 Low Earth orbit: Huggins Observatory defunct: 1856 London, England, UK Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory: 1940 London, Ontario, Canada Hyde Memorial Observatory: 1977 Lincoln, Nebraska, US IceCube Neutrino Observatory: 2010 Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica