Description: The unofficial web site for Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, featuring the comprehensive history of the place from the old days to the present. Here are Antarctic photos, stories, trivia, audio clips, and news from then and now.
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25 March! Sunset is happening at Pole, Polar Star visited Palmer Station, and the program is considering purchase of a 200+ foot long barge to serve as a floating pier for McMurdo. ?? News!
13 March...early winter updates--things are going well so far...and I've got a report on the SPIDER Long Duration Balloon project which involved recovery activity out of Pole, as well as an updated obituary for Johan Booth who died in June 2022.
19 February shipping offload update...a second cruise ship stopped by McM for a second time, this time to discharge a medevac passenger who was flown to Christchurch.