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Video: Captain Robert Scott South Pole ExpeditionOriginal at YouTube
• Sat, Dec 27
By rss@youtube.com (escalador78) The famous and tragic race to conquest the South Pole in 1911-12. Amundsen succeeded, he was the first one, but Scott's journey became unforgettable. The music is from "Ned Kelly" soundtrack, by Klaus Badelt. Some of the video footage is from "Imax: Anctarctica".
Video: ROAD TO THE POLE 7 - Leaving For The PoleOriginal at YouTube
• Fri, Dec 19
By rss@youtube.com (rosswhitakerdottv) In December 2008 Mark Pollock will attempt to become the first blind person to race to the South Pole. In this video he prepares to leave and contemplates what lies ahead. Author: rosswhitakerdottv Keywords: Mark Pollock South Pole Amundsen Race 2008 2009 blind athlete
Video: Race To The South Pole *Comedy*Original at YouTube
• Fri, Dec 12
By rss@youtube.com (Elementaryschoolfun) READ DESCRIPTION* This is a movie that me and a group of friends made together, It is based on the race to the south pole with Robert Falcon Scott And Roald Amundsen! This is a comedy version of the race so it would be less boring! Some of the parts are boring but they are like only 10 seconds long...
Video: Scott of the Antarctic (part 10 of 10)Original at YouTube
• Sat, Dec 6
By rss@youtube.com (sebas71) Excellent British film about the tragic story of captain Robert Scott's expedition to the South Pole. Fastastic score by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. Keywords: Robert Falcon Scott Ralph Vaughan Williams John Mills Antarctica Symphony South Pole Roald Amundsen 1948
Video: JMDMT #2105 Microfossils of Cyanobacteria in Carbonaceous MeteoritesOriginal at YouTube
• Sun, Nov 23
By rss@youtube.com (h4ck3rm1k3) The James M. DuPont Meteorite Collection - from the bottom of the South Pole water well (SPWW) using a collector which we designed and built [1]. The SPWW is a 23-m-diameter by 15-m-deep melt pool 100 m below the snow surface at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It provides drinking wate...
Video: South Pole 360° PanOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Oct 29
By rss@youtube.com (TheFrozenDesert) This pan was done from the top of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. We are about 50 feet above "ground" level. At this position, one can feel every bit of the -86.3°F windchill. Author: TheFrozenDesert Keywords: southpole amundsen thefrozendesert Added: October 29, 2008
Video: Basler BT-67 Arrives at South Pole Oct 2008Original at YouTube
• Thu, Oct 23
By rss@youtube.com (TheFrozenDesert) I mistakenly pressed the video button instead of the still photo button on my camera. Here's the exciting result. Author: TheFrozenDesert Keywords: SouthPole Amundsen-Scott Basler Added: October 23, 2008
Video: Antarctica Challenge Part 1Original at Google Video
• Wed, Oct 8
10 min - 2008-10-08 This is a video of preparing the support cars for the "AMUNDSEN OMEGA 3 SOUTH POLE RACE". This video shows some of the extensive modifications made to the vehicles. We will post more as time progress.
Greenhouse Gas Observatories Downwind from Erupting Volcanoes
Original at American Thinker
• Thu, Dec 3
The South Pole Observatory is just yards away from a power plant which burns jet fuel 365 days a year to provide electricity and heat for Amundsen Station. ...
Delaware classrooms invited to join UD researchers on Antarctic adventure
Original at UDaily
• Mon, Nov 30
Photo by James Roth The UD researchers are based at the new, elevated Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (upper right), which officially opened on Jan. ...
The Making of the Trailer for the Major Motion Picture Whiteout Based on the Graphic
Original at google.com
• Mon, Nov 30
by David Barud and Francis Sheil, and starring many of the winter overs of the 2009 Austral winter season. ... Amundsen-Scott South Pole Whiteout ... vimeo.com
The Making of the Trailer for the Major Motion Picture Whiteout Based on the Graphic
Original at google.com
• Mon, Nov 30
Winter International Film Festival. Look for our other video A New FNG, also filmed at the South Pole. ... Amundsen-Scott South Pole Antarctica ... vimeo.com
Arboles resident's 'summer' job is anything but warm vacation
Original at Durango Herald
• Sat, Nov 28
Then last year, a $153-million elevated, two-story building, officially called the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, was completed that has a greenhouse ...
Should NASA's Mars Rover be compared to Columbus?
Original at USA Today
• Fri, Nov 27
Christopher Columbus sailing to the New World, Roald Amundsen driving his dogs towards the South Pole, and Neil Armstrong stepping into the soft dust of ... and more »
Antarctic dome to be decommissioned - Gadling
Original at gadling.com
• Thu, Nov 12
Antarctic dome to be decommissioned Gadling (blog) The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station has been conducting research in Antarctica for more than 50 ...
Stateside Home Is Proposed for South Pole Dome
Original at New York Times
• Mon, Nov 9
ANTARCTIC ARCHITECTURE Staff members at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station gathering in early 2008 for a last photograph at the geodesic dome before its ... and more »
Persuasive Writing: Antarctica - Scott vs Amundsen
Original at room10greylynn (Blogspot)
• Tue, May 26
Who should have won the race to the South Pole - Robert Falcon Scott or Roald Amundsen? Let Jordan, Jennifer and Xavier persuade you by sharing ... room10greylynn.blogspot.com
Swivel-shed v polar stilt-scope in Big Bang boffinry clash
Original at Register
• Mon, May 18
Space Daily UK This is vital in order to steal a march on rival boffins, also seeking to find the gravwave gunsmoke with their radiotelescope, situated at the Amundsen-Scott scientific South Pole stilt base. The Chicago desert-antenna swivel-shed team hope to have ...
Packing Indiana Jones style for the frozen north
Original at Times Online
• Sun, May 17
UK Famously, Roald Amundsen got to the South Pole before Scott largely because he'd learnt from the Inuit to use dogs, broaden the runners of his sledges and so on. But he was also the first to navigate the North-West Passage in 1906 — 60 years after ...
Ask AP: Antarctic time zones, John Demjanjuk
Original at google.com
• Fri, May 15
Three US bases — McMurdo Station on the Ross Sea coast, Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula and Scott-Amundsen Base at the South Pole — operate on New Zealand time. That's convenient because transportation links are with Christchurch air base on ...
Iraq base shooting victims united by circumstance
Original at google.com
• Thu, May 14
In 1991, the University of Michigan graduate was a physician at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole in a climate research project, said Mike O'Neill, the group's electronics technician. "He came in at the last minute not knowing anybody," ...
Iraq base shooting victims united by circumstance
Original at Rocky Mount Telegram
• Thu, May 14
NC In 1991, the University of Michigan graduate was a physician at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole in a climate research project, said Mike O'Neill, the group's electronics technician.
1 of 5 killed in Iraq shooting was UM graduate
Original at WTOL
• Thu, May 14
OH Mike O'Neill, an electronics technician who knew him, said that in 1991 the University of Michigan graduate was a physician at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole in a climate research project. Houseal was inquisitive, always checking on ...
1 of 5 killed in Iraq shooting was UM graduate
Original at Fox 28
• Thu, May 14
IN Mike O'Neill, an electronics technician who knew him, said that in 1991 the University of Michigan graduate was a physician at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole in a climate research project. Houseal was inquisitive, always checking on ...
Two healers, 4 who needed healing
Original at Philadelphia Inquirer
• Thu, May 14
The Associated Press PA For 11 months in 1991, the University of Michigan graduate served as the physician for 20 people working at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole in a climate-research project funded by the National Science Foundation, said Mike O'Neill, ...
Winding paths led victims to Iraq stress clinic
Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk
• Wed, May 13
UK For 11 months in 1991, the University of Michigan graduate was physician for about 20 people working at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole in a climate research project funded by the National Science Foundation, said Mike O'Neill who was ...
Iraq base shooting victims united by circumstance
Original at Las Vegas Sun
• Wed, May 13
NV In 1991, the University of Michigan graduate was a physician at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole in a climate research project, said Mike O'Neill, the group's electronics technician. "He came in at the last minute not knowing anybody," ...
Some Baghdad shooting victims counseled soldiers
Original at NewsWest9.com
• Wed, May 13
TX For 11 months in 1991, the University of Michigan graduate served as the physician for about 20 people working at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole. The climate research project was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Winding paths led victims to Iraq stress clinic
Original at Rocky Mount Telegram
• Wed, May 13
NC For 11 months in 1991, the University of Michigan graduate served as the physician for about 20 people working at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole in a climate research project funded by the National Science Foundation, said Mike O'Neill ...
Some Baghdad shooting victims counseled soldiers
Original at KSWO
• Wed, May 13
OK For 11 months in 1991, the University of Michigan graduate served as the physician for about 20 people working at the Amundsen-Scott Station near the South Pole. The climate research project was funded by the National Science Foundation.
River deep, mountain high
Original at News & Star
• Fri, May 8
News & Star News & Star, UK Then there was the race to the South Pole in January of this year. The last person to do the same race was Captain Robert Scott, in 1912, only to discover that a Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, had arrived a couple of weeks before. ...
NH trio endures Antarctic isolation
Original at The Union Leader
• Tue, May 5
NH - Jim Fennell Welcome to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, the most well known of the three research facilities on Antarctica maintained by the National Science Foundation as part of the US Antarctic Program. The last plane out leaves around the second week of ...
US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon
Original at Sunday Observer
• Sat, May 2
• 4 related articles
Sri Lanka The agriculture centre also makes remote operational improvements to its existing, state-of-the-art hydroponic “growth chamber” at the National Science Foundation's new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Conditions at the South Pole, ...
Related articles from BusinessWorld Online, eTaiwan News, google.com, MSN Indonesia.
Ceremonies held at Gallipoli, Afghanistan and the South Pole
Original at Radio New Zealand
• Fri, Apr 24
New Zealand The only New Zealander at the South Pole has paid tribute to fallen soldiers by holding an outdoor ceremony and baking some Anzac biscuits. Jude Gregan is a doctor at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica working with about 40 other people. ...
Comunitatea The Secret World porneşte în "questul steagului"
Original at ComputerGames.ro
• Thu, Apr 23
Romania Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian Explorer, led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole and is also the first person to reach both the North and South Poles, and traverse the fabled North-West Passage. This Flag was carried by Amundsen on all ...
Scientists considering greenhouses on the Moon
Original at BusinessWorld Online
• Mon, Apr 20
• 4 related articles
The agriculture center also makes remote operational improvements to its existing, state-of-the-art hydroponic "growth chamber" at the National Science Foundation's new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Conditions at the South Pole, ...
Related articles from eTaiwan News, google.com, MSN Indonesia, Sunday Observer.
US scientists to grow veggies on the Moon
Original at eTaiwan News
• Fri, Apr 17
• 4 related articles
Taiwan The agriculture center also makes remote operational improvements to its existing, state-of-the-art hydroponic "growth chamber" at the National Science Foundation's new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Conditions at the South Pole, ...
Related articles from BusinessWorld Online, google.com, MSN Indonesia, Sunday Observer.
US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon
Original at MSN Indonesia
• Tue, Apr 14
• 4 related articles
Indonesia The agriculture center also makes remote operational improvements to its existing, state-of-the-art hydroponic "growth chamber" at the National Science Foundation's new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Conditions at the South Pole, ...
Related articles from BusinessWorld Online, eTaiwan News, google.com, Sunday Observer.
US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon
Original at google.com
• Tue, Apr 14
• 4 related articles
The agriculture center also makes remote operational improvements to its existing, state-of-the-art hydroponic "growth chamber" at the National Science Foundation's new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Conditions at the South Pole, ...
Related articles from BusinessWorld Online, eTaiwan News, MSN Indonesia, Sunday Observer.
Doctor Describes Performing Own Cancer Treatment At South Pole
Original at tylerpaper.com
• Sat, Mar 28
TX Dr. Nielson detailed her adventure as a medical officer at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica in 1999. A former emergency room physician, she trekked to the isolated and frigid part of the world after having a string of bad experiences ...
Two AHP Members Unite to Canter Against Cancer
Original at Equestrianmag.com
• Wed, Mar 25
FL drew worldwide attention in 1998 after treating herself for breast cancer while stranded at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station, and is the best-selling author of Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole. ...
Students learn about living at the South Pole
Original at Chisago County Press
• Thu, Feb 12
MN - Feb 12, 2009 Sohlstrom's home away from home wasn't an igloo, but the slides he showed of the large domed structure at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station look pretty ...
The Weather Has Cleared, Team South Pole Flag Have Started Their Race
Original at The Epoch Times Ireland
• Tue, Jan 6
By By Martin Murphy/The Epoch Times The Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race to Geographic South Pole
Fastest journey to the South Pole-world record set by Todd Carmichael
Original at World Records Academy
• Fri, Jan 2
FL - Todd Carmichael spoke to scientists at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station about his experience. Wayne Moore, a physician's assistant working at the pole, ... American breaks world ski record across Antarctica – without skis Bangor Daily News all 2 news articles
Briton becomes first person to swim to North Pole
Original at Wizbang
• Mon, Jul 16
By trikc Source I just kept on looking at Jorgen Amundsen ski-ing next to me, encouraging me. I will never ever give up in front of a Norwegian! Let alone a relative of Roald Amundsen (who beat Britain's Captain Scott to the South Pole.) There is just too much rivalry between our two nations for that."