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Rate The ceremonial South Pole. Flags of the Antarctic Treaty signato...

 

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Rate Polar attraction

Original at Moscow external link    Mon, Nov 30

I once went on an expedition to Antarctica with my third husband. When I moved here I brought all that South Pole gear with me in order to keep warm during ...

Rate Polar attraction

Original at Livemint external link    Fri, Nov 27

Dharmshaktu is part of an all-woman team that is skiing 900km from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole as part of the Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic ...

Rate Reliving Captain Scott's journey

Original at BBC News external link    Fri, Nov 27

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Scott and his team died as they returned from the South Pole. Cambridge University's Scott Polar Research Institute is publishing the diary to help people ... Antarctic TwittermaniaVarsity Online Dead explorer re-starts his expedition on TwitterTVNZ

Rate Brunei's Polar Girl Phones Home: Aidil Adha On Ice

Original at Bru Direct external link    Thu, Nov 26

Era and the team were preparing to set off on the fifth day of their expedition. aiming to cover 54km of the 910km trek to the geographic South Pole. ...

Rate Matthew Belson: In search of whiskey

Original at Norwich Bulletin external link    Wed, Nov 25

Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton abandoned the two cases of Mackinlay and Co., brand whiskey in 1909 after a failed attempt at reaching the South Pole. ... Woman gets frostbite, leaves Antarctic ski odysseyThe Associated Press all 110 news articles »

Rate Canadian Adventurer Meagan McGrath Set to begin 45 Day Solo Journey from the ... - TravelVideo.tv

Original at TravelVideo.tv external link    Wed, Nov 25    3 related articles

Canadian Adventurer Meagan McGrath Set to begin 45 Day Solo Journey from the ... press release) McGrath will begin her Antarctic Odyssey at Patriot Hills - a commercially operated base camp where polar adventurers typically begin their South Pole ...

Rate WSJ's Freeman: "[T]here hasn't been any [global] warming since 1998"

Original at Media Matters for America external link    Sat, Nov 21

If the Polar Ice Caps are receding that is all that Matters. It can be freezing in Miami but if the South Pole Ice Cap is receding we are in deep Do-Do. ... and more »

Past Month

 

Rate Chinese vice premier urges to upgrade polar exploration

Original at Xinhua external link    Fri, Nov 20

20, 1984, China sent its first team to the South Pole. Polar exploration missions concern the country's long-term interests and are of pragmatic ... and more »

Rate Halal Food For Polar Girl In Antarctica

Original at Bru Direct external link    Tue, Nov 17

I will do my best to reach the South Pole and bring fame to our country,"• she added emotionally. The Kaspersky Lab Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition will ...

Rate Norway: Reindeer at the ready...it's time for Derby Day in Tromso

Original at Daily Mail - UK external link    Mon, Nov 16

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In the small Polar Museum on Tromso waterfront, the original handwritten telegram announcing his conquest of the South Pole is on display along with a small ... and more »

Rate Rosetta comet chaser captures spectacular image of Earth

Original at Daily News & Analysis external link    Sun, Nov 15

Daily News & Analysis The illuminated crescent is centered roughly around the South Pole. The outline of Antarctica is visible under the clouds that form the striking south-polar ... and more »

May of 2009

 

Rate Friday puzzle: sphere

Original at EDN.com external link    Fri, May 29

 MA Less well known is that the man can be near the South Pole too (yes, I know there are no polar bears in the Antarctic; there are none at the North Pole either, in fact). The key is that when the man walks one mile east in the middle of his walk, ...

Rate Sudbury adventurer ready for next big challenge

Original at Northern Daily external link    Wed, May 27    3 related articles

 Canada The Antarctic Odyssey expedition is a rare adventure through the ice polar landscapes of Antarctica. McGrath will attempt to become the first Canadian to ski solo the vast distance from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole. She will encounter temperatures ...

Rate McGrath heading to South Pole

Original at Sudbury Star external link    Fri, May 22    3 related articles

 Canada The Antarctic Odyssey expedition is a rare adventure through the ice polar landscapes of Antarctica. McGrath will attempt to become the first Canadian to ski solo the vast distance from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole. She will encounter temperatures ...

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 London commander they called 007 is fatally wounded in Helmand

Original at This is London external link    Fri, May 15

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 UK Polar traveller Geoff Somers told the Standard how he trained Lt Evison for a record breaking solo expedition to the South Pole in 2006. Mr Somers, who has completed a dozen journeys to both Poles, coached the young officer as he attempted to realise ...

Rate Steger aims climate-change message at N. Dakota audiences (and ...

Original at MinnPost.com external link    Wed, May 13

 MN In Grand Forks Monday, he entertained more than 400 middle-school students with tales of crossing Antarctica with teams of polar huskies, "showering" in the snow and doing head-stands on the South Pole, then pressed his message about climate change at ...

Rate EBACE: All aboard Tag's Polar Express

Original at Flight International external link    Mon, May 11

 UK Ojjeh and four pilots, supported by an operations manager, flight engineer and official observer, flew HB-JEX from TAG's Farnborough facility to the north-west, crossing the North Pole and later the South Pole before returning to Farnborough. ...

Rate Prince's look at glacier research

Original at Cambridge Evening News external link    Fri, May 8

Prince's look at glacier research  UK “As a head of state, he can be influential in communicating the wider significance of the polar regions in a warming world.” Earlier in the year the prince visited Antarctica, saying: “Everything happening at the South Pole, like the North Pole, ...

Rate Now for Antarctica: Russia's polar mission heads southVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at russiatoday.com external link    Wed, May 6

The flagship of Russia's polar fleet has docked in Germany before beginning its long journey to the South Pole. www.russiatoday.com

Rate Polar Pam Conquers South Pole

Original at coltonspointtimes (Blogspot) external link    Mon, May 4

Here at Coltons Point we have some pretty famous people like Polar Pam who has been to the deep freeze of the South Pole a couple of times and we ... coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com

April of 2009

 

Rate Movie Review: Earth

Original at Blogcritics external link    Mon, Apr 27

 OH It opens and closes on the plight of a male polar bear and – in between – journeys from first day of sunshine at the North Pole to last day of sunshine at the South Pole. Along the way, it shows us a dazzling assortment of animal life. ...

Rate ExplorersWeb Week in Review

Original at K2climb.net external link    Sun, Apr 26

 NY Charles Hedrich from France plans to travel from the Geographic North Pole to the Geographic South Pole this year. He and his polar guide Arnaud Tortel are on the first leg; skiing from the NP to Greenland. Other Artic Expeditions: Storms and ...

Rate ExplorersWeb Week in Review

Original at Mounteverest external link    Sun, Apr 26

 NY Charles Hedrich from France plans to travel from the Geographic North Pole to the Geographic South Pole this year. He and his polar guide Arnaud Tortel are on the first leg; skiing from the NP to Greenland. Other Artic Expeditions: Storms and ...

Rate Power and Water Supervisor

Original at RenewableEnergyWorld.com external link    Mon, Apr 20

 NH Raytheon Polar Services is the primary contractor for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) US Antarctic Program. We are currently seeking Power and Water Supervisors to deploy to McMurdo, South Pole or Palmer research stations on a contract basis ...

Rate Arctic explorer Bancroft delivers keynote address

Original at River Falls Journal external link    Mon, Apr 20

 WI Bancroft shattered the notion that women were too weak to endure polar exploration. She and Arnesen were the first women to sail and ski 1700 miles across Antarctica in February 2001. In 1993, she led a four-woman team to the South Pole covering 660 ...

Rate Bowdoin College's Polar Explorer Robert Peary, Stuffed and on a Pole

Original at Collegenews.org external link    Thu, Apr 16    3 related articles

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 DC polarexplorers is a polar guiding company that helps individuals fulfill their dreams of traveling to the North or South Pole, or exploring other exotic destinations in the high Arctic or Antarctic. Read more about polarexplorers. ... To the End of the Earth By Tom Avery Washington Post

Rate All Dolled Up at the North Pole: Peary Doll Joins Polar Explorer's ...

Original at Bowdoin external link    Mon, Apr 13    3 related articles

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 ME PolarExplorers is a polar guiding company that helps individuals fulfill their dreams of traveling to the North or South Pole, or exploring other exotic destinations in the high Arctic or Antarctic. Read more about PolarExplorers. ...

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, ...

Rate Hagley school pupils' jacket design puts them in Pole position

Original at BirminghamMail.net external link    Sun, Apr 5

 UK Hagley Catholic High School in Hagley, near Stourbridge, is due to host a visit by the polar explorers on April 22. Together with third Team QinetiQ member Ed Coats, they completed a 500-mile trek to the South Pole over the Christmas and New Year ...

Rate Two novels that will make your blood run cold

Original at USA Today external link    Mon, Mar 30

By Robert Masello The location: A remote research station at the South Pole; present-day. On ice: During underwater explorations in the polar sea, two bodies are discovered encased in ice. The plot: The bodies are taken to the station for scientific ...

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 Celebrating polar creatures

Original at North Bay Nugget external link    Sat, Mar 28

 Canada By the same authors,South Pole Penguinsinvestigates the fate of the penguins of Antarctica. Are they getting their fill of krill, or has climate change reshaped the food web? Riley joins Uncle Max on a voyage to the South Pole, home to whales, seals, ...

Rate RazakSAT a truly M'sian feat

Original at dailyexpress.com.my external link    Sun, Mar 22

 Malaysia Normally satellites orbit from the North Pole to South Pole and they are known as the polar orbit. The RazakSAT will orbit the equator line, which makes our satellite unique, and the first in the world. "By doing this, we should be able to gain more ...

Rate Multiple Dimensions: Between Superstrings and Parallel Worlds

Original at Epoch Times external link    Thu, Mar 19

 NY The South Pole simply offers a setting on Earth with the least amount of interference from other factors. But even with a polar facility, these special neutrinos can be hard to find. The AMANDA (Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array) laboratory ...

Rate Students get taste of 'awesome' South Pole

Original at New Straits Times external link    Thu, Mar 5

 Malaysia Munira and Thary were chosen for the trip to the Antarctic after they won an essay competition on the polar regions. Their trip was under a programme by the Students on Ice Expedition, an award-winning educational organisation based in Quebec. ...

Rate It's over: Christina Franco off the Arctic ice

Original at Mounteverest external link    Thu, Mar 5

 NY ThePoles.com) Polar explorers will tell you that the North Pole is a much harder nut to crack than the South Pole. Last year, the only two expeditions attempting the quest both aborted within 8-13 days (SP-solo speed-record holder UK Hannah McKeand ...

Year 2009

 

Rate IPY talks highlight South Pole Station, changing Arctic sea life

Original at Newark Post external link    Sat, Feb 7

 DE The latest lectures in UD's William S. Carlson International Polar Year Events will take you on a journey to the ends of the Earth, from the new US South Pole Station to the Arctic, where scientists are observing changes in marine biological ... Alan's our polar hero This is Scunthorpe

Rate Wim Tellier Provides First Exposition at the South Pole, Protect 7 ... - PR Newswire

Original at sev.prnewswire.com external link    Mon, Jan 26

Wim Tellier Provides First Exposition at the South Pole, Protect 7 ... PR Newswire (press release), NY - Jan 26, 2009 On January 26 the team will leave for the South Pole. Polar expert Alain Hubert will lead the expedition for this first art exposition ever on the seventh ...

Rate North Pole hopeful talks to St. Anne’s students

Original at New Richmond external link    Thu, Dec 11

 WI - Dec 11, 2008 Huston has already skied to the South Pole and been on other polar expeditions, but Fish admits this is his first. “My dad, Steve Fish, always enjoyed being ...

Rate Antarctica Observatory: Searching for Gravity's Enemy -the Hottest ...

Original at The Daily Galaxy external link    Mon, Nov 10

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff Swinging its massive mirror skyward, the South Pole Telescope (SPT) for the last few months has begun to search the southern polar heavens for shreds of evidence of the elusive stuff. Controlled remotely from the University of Chicago, ...

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