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Videos

December of 2008

 

Rate Video: Captain Robert Scott South Pole ExpeditionVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, Dec 27

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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".

Rate Video: ROAD TO THE POLE 7 - Leaving For The PoleVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Fri, Dec 19

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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

Rate Video: Race To The South Pole *Comedy*Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Fri, Dec 12

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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...

Rate Video: Scott of the Antarctic (part 10 of 10)Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, Dec 6

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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

Year 2008

 

Rate Video: JMDMT #2105 Microfossils of Cyanobacteria in Carbonaceous MeteoritesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Nov 23

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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...

Rate Video: South Pole 360° PanVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Oct 29

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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

Rate Video: Basler BT-67 Arrives at South Pole Oct 2008Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Thu, Oct 23

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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

Rate Video: Antarctica Challenge Part 1Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Wed, Oct 8

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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.

Stories

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate Greenhouse Gas Observatories Downwind from Erupting Volcanoes

Original at American Thinker external link    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. ...

Rate Delaware classrooms invited to join UD researchers on Antarctic adventure

Original at UDaily external link    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. ...

Rate The Making of the Trailer for the Major Motion Picture Whiteout Based on the Graphic

Original at google.com external link    Mon, Nov 30

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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

Rate The Making of the Trailer for the Major Motion Picture Whiteout Based on the Graphic

Original at google.com external link    Mon, Nov 30

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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

Rate Arboles resident's 'summer' job is anything but warm vacation

Original at Durango Herald external link    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 ...

Rate Should NASA's Mars Rover be compared to Columbus?

Original at USA Today external link    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 »

Year 2009

 

Rate Antarctic dome to be decommissioned - Gadling

Original at gadling.com external link    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 ...

Rate Stateside Home Is Proposed for South Pole Dome

Original at New York Times external link    Mon, Nov 9

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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 »

Rate Persuasive Writing: Antarctica - Scott vs Amundsen

Original at room10greylynn (Blogspot) external link    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

Rate Swivel-shed v polar stilt-scope in Big Bang boffinry clash

Original at Register external link    Mon, May 18

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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 ...

Rate Packing Indiana Jones style for the frozen north

Original at Times Online external link    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 ...

Rate Ask AP: Antarctic time zones, John Demjanjuk

Original at google.com external link    Fri, May 15

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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 ...

Rate Iraq base shooting victims united by circumstance

Original at google.com external link    Thu, May 14

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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," ...

Rate Iraq base shooting victims united by circumstance

Original at Rocky Mount Telegram external link    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.

Rate 1 of 5 killed in Iraq shooting was UM graduate

Original at WTOL external link    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 ...

Rate 1 of 5 killed in Iraq shooting was UM graduate

Original at Fox 28 external link    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 ...

Rate Two healers, 4 who needed healing

Original at Philadelphia Inquirer external link    Thu, May 14

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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, ...

Rate Winding paths led victims to Iraq stress clinic

Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk external link    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 ...

Rate Iraq base shooting victims united by circumstance

Original at Las Vegas Sun external link    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," ...

Rate Some Baghdad shooting victims counseled soldiers

Original at NewsWest9.com external link    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.

Rate Winding paths led victims to Iraq stress clinic

Original at Rocky Mount Telegram external link    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 ...

Rate Some Baghdad shooting victims counseled soldiers

Original at KSWO external link    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.

Rate River deep, mountain high

Original at News & Star external link    Fri, May 8

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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. ...

Rate NH trio endures Antarctic isolation

Original at The Union Leader external link    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 ...

Rate US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon

Original at Sunday Observer external link    Sat, May 2    4 related articles

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 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, ...

Rate Ceremonies held at Gallipoli, Afghanistan and the South Pole

Original at Radio New Zealand external link    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. ...

Rate Comunitatea The Secret World porneşte în "questul steagului"

Original at ComputerGames.ro external link    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 ...

Rate Scientists considering greenhouses on the Moon

Original at BusinessWorld Online external link    Mon, Apr 20    4 related articles

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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, ...

Rate US scientists to grow veggies on the Moon

Original at eTaiwan News external link    Fri, Apr 17    4 related articles

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 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, ...

Rate US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon

Original at MSN Indonesia external link    Tue, Apr 14    4 related articles

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 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, ...

Rate US scientists plan greenhouses on the Moon

Original at google.com external link    Tue, Apr 14    4 related articles

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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, ...

Rate Doctor Describes Performing Own Cancer Treatment At South Pole

Original at tylerpaper.com external link    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 ...

Rate Two AHP Members Unite to Canter Against Cancer

Original at Equestrianmag.com external link    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. ...

Rate Students learn about living at the South Pole

Original at Chisago County Press external link    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 ...

Rate The Weather Has Cleared, Team South Pole Flag Have Started Their Race

Original at The Epoch Times Ireland external link    Tue, Jan 6

By By Martin Murphy/The Epoch Times The Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race to Geographic South Pole

Rate Fastest journey to the South Pole-world record set by Todd Carmichael

Original at World Records Academy external link    Fri, Jan 2

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 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

Year 2007

 

Rate Briton becomes first person to swim to North Pole

Original at Wizbang external link    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."

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Rate Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The ceremonial pole and flags ...

Rate Telescopes used for research at the South Pole

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