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Rate Aerial view of South Pole Station, January 2006

 

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: 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

Stories

May of 2009

 

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, ...

April of 2009

 

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 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 To the End of the Earth By Tom Avery

Original at Washington Post external link    Fri, Apr 17

 United States - Tom Avery We know beyond doubt who first reached the South Pole: the Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his party in 1911, a few weeks ahead of the ill-fated British expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. But the nod for discovery of the North Pole has been the ...

Rate Spend Your Way Out Of Guilt!

Original at Jaunted external link    Fri, Apr 17

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Getaways That Are 'Guilt Free'" was all simpatico up to the point where they recommend an Antarctic trip. And not the Scott-at-the-South-Pole kind, but a $6000 eco-friendly trip. Sure, it's a great way to mark Earth Day, but it's a bit much. ...

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 Former Norfolk schoolboy at North Pole

Original at North Norfolk external link    Fri, Apr 17

 UK In December, Mr Oliver, who now lives in London, will tackle the second part of his challenge and ski to the South Pole - following in the footsteps of his childhood hero Scott of the Antarctic. To sponsor Mr Oliver visit ...

Rate Ghost walkers trip to St Andrews

Original at Dumfries and Galloway Standard external link    Thu, Apr 16

 UK - Iain Pollock Famous for its exploration of the Antarctic and as the ship that took Captain Robert Scott on his ill fated journey to the South Pole, pupils had the chance to explore this ship. After a meal stop at McDonalds came the highlight of the trip – the ...

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 ExplorersWeb Week in Review

Original at K2climb.net external link    Sun, Apr 12    2 related articles

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 NY The UK Scott Centenary Expedition will start at the base of the Beardmore Glacier and ascend the glacier through to the Polar Plateau to reach the South Pole. The Indian Ocean Rowing Race competitors The Indian Ocean Rowing Race starts next week. ...

Rate Planned future expeditions: Baikal, Scott Centenary, Greenland and ...

Original at Mounteverest external link    Wed, Apr 8

 NY Polar skier/kiter Henry Cooksen, who was part of Paul Landry’s team to the South Pole of Inaccessibility in 2006-07, will be guiding several mountain climbs and a Greenland ski expedition. Henry plans to guide Kilimanjaro (5865 m) trips in June, ...

March of 2009

 

Rate Scott of the Antarctic's South Pole trek to be retraced

Original at Mirror.co.uk external link    Sun, Mar 29

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Two adventurers are to retrace Scott of the Antarctic's ill-fated 1800-mile expedition to the South Pole - and hope to get there exactly 100 years after he died. Ben Saunders, 31, and Alastair Humphreys, 32, will drag food and supplies on sledges in ...

Rate British adventurers to follow Scott

Original at google.com external link    Sat, Mar 28

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Dragging food and supplies on sledges, the pair will be alone and unaided as they walk the 1800-mile round-trip to the South Pole and back in honour of Scott's contribution to polar exploration and human endeavour. They estimate the Scott Antarctic ...

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 Construction At The Bottom Of The Earth

Original at Albany Times Union external link    Tue, Mar 17

 NY This was the task of Jerry Marty, project manager for the new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. Much of the construction material was flow to the site on LC-130 Hercules airscraft flown by the 109th Airlift Wing, based in Scotia at the ...

Rate South Pole: ‘A magnificent, desolate place’

Original at Troy Messenger external link    Sat, Mar 14

 AL The South Pole Expedition arrived without incident at the South Pole and the Amundson-Scott South Pole Station. “The station itself is a wonder,” Magee said. “The first stations that were built were, in a short time, covered with snow and ice. ...

Rate Frozen in time ... a new first for our most famous explorer

Original at Macclesfield Express external link    Tue, Mar 10

 United Kingdom Ever since Captain Robert Scott’s doomed trip to the South Pole in early 1910, polar exploration has captured the public’s imagination. Scott had hoped to become the first man to reach the South Pole, but after a gruelling trek across the snow, ...

Rate Face to face with explorers

Original at Press and Journal external link    Sat, Mar 7

 UK Photographic equipment, including the camera used by Scott at the South Pole in 1912 and another that belonged to polar photographer Herbert Ponting, can also be seen. Gill Poulter, heritage and exhibitions director for Dundee Heritage Trust, ...

Year 2009

 

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 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."

Rate Global Warming Threatens Robert Falcon's Antarctic Base

Original at Sci-Tech Today external link    Mon, Jun 11

The Antarctic base occupied by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole on foot early last century has been included on a list of the world's 100 most endangered sites, spurring pleas Friday for multimillion dollar conservation work.

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