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	South Pole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ceremonial South Pole is an area set aside for photo opportunities at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
		The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was established during the International Geophysical Year in 1958 and is permanently staffed by research and support personnel.
		The south pole of a magnet is attracted to the north poles of other magnets, hence the south pole of a freely suspended magnet (as in a compass) will point towards the Geomagnetic South Pole.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Pole

	South Pole Live Camera
		The new station is elevated above the snow to prevent it being buried by the drifting snow (the present fate of the old domed station).
		The new station, presently under construction, can be seen to the right in the photo; the old (circa 1973) domed station is to the left.
		When the new station is finished in about 2006, the old dome and buildings inside will be removed.
	www.cmdl.noaa.gov /obop/spo/livecamera.html

	New South Pole Station
		At right is a closeup view of the main part of the station showing the new structures (unlike the site plan, this view is inverted with grid south at the top).
		This was literally a "last-minute" problem, as at the scheduled time for station closing, the fire system tech reps had to be called back from McMurdo (where they were awaiting their CHC flight) and the cargoids in McM had to dig out and ship replacement parts cannibalized from the B pod fire alarm sytem.
		Fortunately, a detailed analysis of the station settlement data pointed to construction issues 9such as point overloading caused by the temporary snow ramps which provided access to the construction areas) rather than problems with the original foundation design; now the general consensus is that the station foundations will perform satisfactorily over the long term.
	www.southpolestation.com /newpole/newpole.html

	Your Stay at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Antarctica
		The South Pole Station is situated at 90 degrees South on the Polar Plateau.
		The station was originally constructed 400 meters from the geographic South Pole; however, ice movement, at the rate of 10 meters per year, will eventually carry the station over the actual Pole.
		Confirmation or revision to plans should be provided to the South Pole Station Manager at least two weeks in advance of departure so that the Chalet may be informed and your departure scheduled.
	www.theice.org /spstay.html

	The Antarctic Sun: New South Pole station
		The new South Pole elevated station, scheduled for completion in 2007.
		But designers of the new station took pains to make sure some vital parts of South Pole culture are preserved.
		This season’s winter staff is scheduled to be the first to inhabit the Pole’s new elevated station, as the dining hall and one set of dorms is considered complete enough for use.
	www.polar.org /antsun/oldissues2002-2003/Sun020203/pole.html

	USATODAY.com
		The U.S. station at the South Pole gets around this to some extent by using older geostationary satellites that are no longer in perfect orbits, but that swing north and south of the equator.
		People at the the South Pole Station refer to a satellite being "up," which means they can communicate.
		This means it covers the ocean from the North Pole to Alaska's northern coast, about 1,300 miles from the Pole, and to the northern coast of Russia and Europe, very roughly the same distance as from the Pole to Alaska.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/askjack/wapolar.htm

	Air Guard retraces first flight to South Pole
		South Pole crews unloaded the sleds and the fuel.
		The sled frames were headed for the South Pole to pull heavy drilling equipment into place for the IceCube project, which is creating the world’s largest neutrino detector by implanting instruments deep into the ice.
		From a higher altitude of 17,500 feet, even the heavy tractors and trailers of a team investigating the possibility of supplying the South Pole by land were a mere blip on the radar screen.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=123009304

	NOAA News Online (Story 242)
		Since there is no way to evacuate a person from the South Pole in the middle of winter, the National Science Foundation requested the U.S. Air Force to conduct an air drop of necessary medicine and diagnostic supplies.
		Tom announced that the C-141 was en route to the South Pole.
		Stationed at the research station is Joel Michalski, who is a lieutenant for the NOAA Corps.
	www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories/s242.htm

	Articles - Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
		The original South Pole station, now referred to as "Old Pole", was constructed by an eighteen man Navy crew during 1956â€“1957.
		Beginning in 1999/2000, the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing took responsibility for the daily cargo and PAX flights between the McMurdo Station and the South Pole during the summer.
		Since the winter conditions at the South Pole had never been measured, the station was built partially underground in order to protect it from the worst imaginable weather.
	www.poncier.com /articles/Amundsen-Scott_South_Pole_Station

	The Antarctic Sun
		This year, the South Pole station has received 73 percent of their scheduled flights, a number that can improve or deteriorate depending on Mother Nature.
		Ferraro Choi Associates, a Honolulu-based architecture firm, to survey the existing South Pole station.
		Materials needed for winter construction are then given priority on their continuing flight to the South Pole, along with a winter supply of goods and produce for those staying.
	www.polar.org /antsun/oldissues2001-2002/2001_1125/design.html

	Observatory Operations: SPO
		The South Pole Observatory (SPO) is one of four atmospheric baseline observatories for NOAA's Climate Monitoring and Diagnositics Laboratory (CMDL).
		The South Pole Observatory was established at the geographical south pole at 2837 m above sea level in 1957 as part of the International Geophysical Year.
		Located at the South Pole, Antarctica covers 5.5 million square miles (14.2 square kilometers) and with over 95% of its surface area covered by ice it generates the coldest climate on Earth.
	www.cmdl.noaa.gov /spo/spo.html

	South Pole, 2002
		We had reports that a Russian Political Giant, (Artur N Chilingarov), was going to fly his personal Bi-Plane to the South Pole, under the guise of coming to look at the construction currently being built for New South Pole Station, with the hopes of rebuilding the failing Russian Antarctic Station, Vostok.
		We the South Pole were instructed by the US State Department to drag the aircraft away and put it in safe storage for the winter.
		Fuel is transported via the LC-130 Hercules aircraft to the South Pole in the wings of the aircraft.
	www.70south.com /resources/evacs/2002_southpole_ru

	Scientific Expedition Introduction South Pole Station
		Situated on a plateau of ice 9,000 feet (2,700 m) thick, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is about 1,000 feet (300 m) upstream from the geographic south pole and is drifting with the ice sheet toward the pole at a rate of 33 feet (10 m) per year.
		The station is named after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and Englishman Robert F. Scott who led independent expeditions to the south pole in the early 1900's.
		The high altitude and dry air make for extremely clear skies so that the view through a telescope at the south pole is better than anywhere else on Earth.
	www.secretsoftheice.org /scientific/southpole.html

	South Pole 'cyberterrorist' hack wasn't the first The Register
		On May 3rd, network administrators for US Antarctic Program and the South Pole Station received an anonymous e-mail with the subject line "South Pole Station Servers HACKED." "This is a message from earth to earth, do you copy?," the -mail began.
		"This aligns the security posture at South Pole with the other stations," he wrote.
		That account - which has since been scrubbed from the FBI's website - underscored the importance of the Internet to scientists living at the South Pole station, describing connectivity as "a lifeline" to the outside world.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2004/08/19/south_pole_hack

	South Pole
		The University of Illinois Rayleigh/Na lidar was first installed at the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station in 1989 to measure the perturbations in Na and atmospheric density, aerosols, and polar stratospheric clouds.
		The current South Pole lidar is a much more sophisitcated system that was installed in 1993.
		Charpentier is this year's winter-over scientist at South Pole.
	conrad.ece.uiuc.edu /Research/SP

	South Pole Station closes for the winter
		The U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station "closed" for the winter on Feb. 16 and the 50 men and women there won't be able to leave or see anyone else until the first flight of the 2001-02 season arrives in October.
		The South Pole Station Web site is available only when a satellite is within range.
		Pole station closes for the winter - March 5, 2001
	www.usatoday.com /news/science/cold-science/2001-03-05-pole-closes.htm

	Virtual tour of the Pole.
		The new station is about 350 meters from the true Geographic South Pole, (learn more about this on the poles page) and is drifting toward the pole at about 10 meters/year.
		Temperatures -- The average annual temperature at the South Pole is -50 degrees C and generally ranges between -21 degrees C in the summer and -78 degrees C in the winter.
		LC130 just after landing at the South Pole.
	astro.uchicago.edu /cara/vtour/pole

	Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
		The focus of the South Pole station is "The Dome"
		This is the only view at the South Pole.
		On the left is the galley(ground floor) and the bar(upstairs) To the left if the science building(ground floor) and upper berthing (upstairs) The photograph was taken from the roof of the Comms/library building.
	ast.leeds.ac.uk /haverah/spaseman/polestat.shtml

	South Pole Research Station Lifestyles
		The trip from Christchurch involves two legs, the first a noisy eight-hour flight to McMurdo Sound in an Air Force Reserve C-130 cargo jet chock full of equipment and supplies, followed the next day by a three-hour trip to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
		Bob Stokstad discovered that an ancillary use for the heated drilling water is in the open-air holding tanks used as hot tubs by South Pole denizens who like to freeze from the chin up while poaching from the neck down.
		Like all visitors to the South Pole, Chuck McParland's first scheduled stop upon arriving in Christchurch after more than five days en route was a visit to the CDC.
	www.lbl.gov /Science-Articles/Archive/pole-gear.html

	Polar Education Home
		Amudnson-Scott South Pole Station is a United States science station located at 90 degrees south latitude.
		During 2003, Karina Leppik was at the South Pole with the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory (AST/RO).
		The primary purpose of the station is science- mostly astronomy and atmosphric science.
	adelie.harvard.edu /ed

	Case Study of Hawaii Architects Ferraro Choi And Associates: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica
		The habitat at the existing 1975 Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is constructed inside a 50-meter diameter geodesic dome that becomes mostly buried each austral winter by the constant snowdrifts.
		A precursor to the current dome, the original 1956 South Pole Station suffered the same fate of snow buildup and has long since vanished under 30 feet of ice.
		Designing a new research station for the South Pole can be a tough challenge.
	www.ferrarochoi.com /casestudies/southpole/index.html

	Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (Bill Spindler's Antarctica)
		The Pole Souls--21 of us winter at South Pole in 1977--stories, pictures, and sounds...
		The Antonov-3T aircraft arrived safely at McMurdo from Pole at 1910 11 January, it was then disassembled and flown north to ChCh aboard the Ilyushin the next day...all the McM-bound ships have come and gone...Bill Spindler is at Pole for the 2005 winter as the Title II Inspector (huh, what's that?)...
		The last steel on the new elevated station was erected on 19 January, conditional occupancy of B1 and B2 was issued on 30 January, and the new B1 berthing rooms are now occupied.
	www.southpolestation.com

	Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
		The multinational flags mark the ceremonial pole, just to the left of the single US flag marking the 2002 geographical pole.
		With the sun now high in the sky, the new station construction stands in stark contrast to the vast frozen expanse.
		An Australian flag marks the ceremonial pole of 2000, in kind remembrance of Rodney Marks.
	home.earthlink.net /~aswo/PostcardsGallery22-33/postcard_30.html

	USATODAY.com - Hillary opposes U.S. South Pole 'highway'
		He arrived at the station the U.S. had built at the Pole between Nov. 20, 1956 when a team of eight Navy Seebees landed in bright sunlight at Midnight, and Feb. 21, 1957, when the last construction workers left.
		Airplanes brought in all of the supplies and equpment needed to build the first station, the second station finished in 1975, and the station now under construction plus all of the food, fuel, and other supplies for those who have worked at the Pole.
		Work on the 1,020-mile "ice highway" from the U.S. McMurdo Station on McMurdo Sound to the Pole is in its third season and should be completed by February 2006.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/resources/coldscience/2004-11-29-ice-highway_x.htm

	South Pole Photos
		The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is is built around the Geographic South Pole, with buildings surrounding the actual pole.
		I left the States on 4 January 2001, and arrived at South Pole on 10 January.
		Between November and mid-February the station is home to around 200 people, but during the winter (15 Feb to late October) only about 50 people are there, and there are no planes in or out.
	students.washington.edu /srh13/SPole/SouthPole.html

	The New South Polar Times
		The station at the South Pole is named for these two brave men.
		The New South Polar Times is a newsletter written by the staff of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole, Antarctica.
		It was on his second expedition to the Antarctic that Scott lost the race to the South Pole to Roald Amundsen by just 34 days.
	205.174.118.254 /nspt/home.htm

	American Society of Polar Philatelists: An Old South Pole Station Story
		The new station was then given over to the civilians to operate and the U.S. Navy's presence at the South Pole was decreased to only a handful of personnel who remained to operate the Ground Control Approach Tower that guides the Navy's ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules aircraft into the South Pole.
		The Old South Pole Station was designed to be buried by snow in some places while clear from it in others.
		SOUTH POLE, 9 JAN 97 The old South Pole Station, now defunct, lays buried by 30 feet of ice and snow.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000022.htm

	NSF UV Monitoring Network: South Pole Station
		The South Pole system is installed at the top of the Atmospheric Research Observatory (ARO, see photo) at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, located at the geographic South Pole.
		The photo shows the top of the instrument at ARO with the main South Pole station in the background.
		The South Pole is accessible by airplane between November and February only.
	www.biospherical.com /NSF/SouthPole/southpole.asp

	VLF Research at South Pole Station
		South Pole station is located on an ice sheet two miles thick which drifts as much as 10 meters per year.
		To learn more about South Pole station as well as other research stations in Antarctica, take the Virtual Tour of Antarctica which was developed by the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica, CARA.
		At South Pole Station in Antarctica, the VLF group maintains a radio receiver system to measure natural VLF emissions in the 3 to 30 kHz frequency range.
	nova.stanford.edu /~vlf/Antarctica/SouthPole/SouthPole.html

	New South Pole station being built
		Despite the harsh conditions at the bottom of the world and the fact that the supply line to the station is one of the world’s longest, the South Pole modernization project is currently on schedule and within its $152.9 million budget, said Karl Erb, director of NSF’s office of polar programs.
		Many of the 200 people working at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station until February 2001 will be construction crews building a new station there.
		A model of the new South Pole station main building.
	usatoday.com /weather/resources/coldscience/2000/spstation103000.htm

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