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Includes  Why Go? SANAE IV...... 114 Severe and spectacular, is the land of the Syowa Station & polar plateau and the continent’s coldest temperatures. The Dome Fuji...... 117 icebound coast, with its massive ice shelves, is broken up by Molodezhnaya the occasional ice-free oasis, or teeming seabird or emperor- Station...... 117 penguin colonies. . . . . 117 Only a small number of research stations are scattered Scullin & Murray along these difficult-to-reach shores, and visitors appear so Monoliths...... 118 rarely that they are generally welcomed with open arms. Lambert Glacier Inland East Antarctica, the heart of the ice cap, is only & Amery Ice Shelf . . . 118 rarely visited by tourists. Several important research sta- tions take advantage of the vast, thick ice sheet and its high, Dumont d’Urville Station...... 121 dry, freezing conditions: perfect for astronomy and physics. Among them is the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. To Dome Argus reach here, you’ll fly over magnificent glaciers, yawning cre- (Dome A)...... 127 vasse fields, and the most barren snow on Earth as you cross South Pole...... 127 the Polar Plateau to reach the mighty Geographic South Pole.

Top Resources Best Places for The South Pole (1912), . Polar technician’s Science triumph in reaching S 90°. ¨¨Amundsen-Scott South Scott’s Last Expedition (1913), Captain Robert F Scott. Pole Station (p136) Firsthand account, published posthumously. ¨¨ (p125) The Home of the Blizzard (1915), Sir . The ¨¨Dome A (p127) explorer’s own account of survival and discovery. South with Mawson (1947), Charles F Laseron. Life on Best Wildlife windswept . La marche de l’empereur (March of the Penguins; 2005), ¨ ¨Scullin & Murray Monoliths directed by Luc Jacquet. (p118) Nankyoku monogatari (Antarctica; 1983), directed by ¨ ¨Dumont d’Urville Station Koreyoshi Kurahara. Music by Vangelis. (p121) South (restored 1998), directed by Frank Hurley. US Antarctic Program (www.usap.gov) Pole webcam. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (www.southpole station.com) Unofficial South Pole info and trivia.

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