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Antarctica like you've never seen it before

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Unrelated, but one of my favorite things about Antarctica is a terribly irreverent and incredibly amusing activity of many temporary residents in the area -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club

Wikipedia claims they run naked, but one of the linked articles[0] says that they actually wear boots. I was wondering how they prevented frostbite...

[0]: http://antarcticnet.tripod.com/300club.html

Wow, what an interesting thing to stumble across. I happen to work for the Polar Geospatial Center and deal with satellite imagery and map-making for both poles all the time. In fact, several of our staff are in the process of deploying to McMurdo where they support the US mission with maps and other GIS related activities. One staffer, Brad Herried, shot most of the Google Streetview material from Antarctica. Nice to see it's appreciated!

Here's something I really love: Walk-through the Amundson Scott South Pole Station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdM9sYXmVrY

You can also see the Scott's hut on Street View: http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/scotts-...

And that's why I love HN. I had no idea about that worldwonders page. Thanks!

Anyone know why this page refers to Litchfield Island as "the island most frequently seen in dreams?"

Oddly enough, this very blog post is the only Google result I get for the quoted phrase. Anyway, the thing looks inkblotty and fractally enough that I could plausibly mistake any frosty island for it in a dream. Probably related to the fact that we regularly have déjà vu in places of which (we think) we’ve dreamt. Or at least I do.

I got one layer deeper. I googled the same thing, but I ended up here back at HN because this very conversation has already been indexed and is now a top search result.

got exact same question

The project page http://antarctica.localwiki.org/ seems to be down.

I just got a 503 error message.

"Service Temporarily Unavailable

"The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."

This is amazing! How long until we can rent a romotive or iPad Double or tacocopter to drive around and "see the place for ourselves"?

Some scientists are alredy using aerial drones :) http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2012/10/10_03_12wayne_perry...

Well, there was this hack by MapBox

http://tiles.mapbox.com/zac/map/antarctica

No high-res satellite imagery though.

Just don't forget to visit the McMurdo Dry Valleys

https://maps.google.com/?ll=-77.547723,160.916748&spn=0....

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