©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd East Antarctica & the South Pole Includes ¨ Why Go? SANAE IV . 114 Severe and spectacular, East Antarctica 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. Mawson Station . 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), Roald Amundsen. 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. ¨ Vostok Station (p125) The Home of the Blizzard (1915), Sir Douglas Mawson. The ¨ Dome A (p127) explorer’s own account of survival and discovery. South with Mawson (1947), Charles F Laseron. Life on Best Wildlife windswept Cape Denison. 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. 112 E E POL POL E POL OUTH OUTH S S E E OUTH S TH TH E & & TH & NTARCTICA NTARCTICA NTARCTICA A A A EAST EAST EAST S HT lig H Hig le PO TH U SO E TH & A C I RCT A T N A T AS E 0° 0 1000 km 30°E 0 500 miles 2 inseconds world the Pole 1 ‘ (p East Antarctica Highlights & the South Pole H Haakon VII 124 ome of theBlizzard ome of Lazarev Commonwealth Bay Commonwealth Geographic South South Geographic Sea (p ) Visiting Mawson’s ) Visiting Mawson’s Sea 136 Neumayer III ) Zipping around ) Zipping around (Germany) S O U T H E R N Princess Astrid Cosmonauts Coast Sea O C E A N SANAE IV Schirmacher (South Africa) Maitri (India); Hills . Novolazarevskaya Princess 60°S . ’ Ragnhild Syowa Ahlmann (Russia) (Japan) Coast Ridge Troll Princess Crown Princess Molodezhnaya (Russia); (Norway) Elisabeth Mountain Evening (Belarus) Martha Coast Antarctic Station Queen Fabiola Cemetery 4 Station Pole South 3 experiments suchasIce experiments aboutcutting-edge learning T (Belgium) 60°E ouring the base and ouring thebase Mountains Enderby Land Amundsen-Scott Amundsen-Scott Buromskiy Island Buromskiy Mt Henderson (p (970m) 120 ) Kemp Coast H onoring Dome Fuji (p Unspecified Mawson (Australia) Limit (Japan) 136 C Scullin & ube ) Queen Maud Land Murray Monoliths Mac.Robertson . (Dronning Maud Land; Land Norway) bolted to bare rock bare to bolted are coffins whose explorers the 5 on thecoast their chicks penguins brooding (p Lambert 120 Amery Glacier Ice Shelf Emperor penguins Emperor ) Gaping at majestic ) Gapingatmajestic Pole of Bharati (India); Maximum Law-Racovi»© (Romania) . Larsemann Hills Inaccessibility Gamburtsev Mountains Progress (Russia); Davis (Australia) Taishan Zhongshan (China) Vestfold Hills Dome Argus (Subglacial) . (Dome A; 4093m) Princess Elizabeth West Kunlun Land Ice Shelf (China) Polar Plateau Geographic 90°E South Pole Wilhelm II Coast Davis Sea.