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The South Pole Traverse, also called the South Pole Overland Traverse (SPoT), [2] or McMurdo–South Pole Highway [3] is an approximately 995-mile-long (1,601 km) flagged route over compacted snow and ice [4] in Antarctica that links McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, both operated by the National Science Foundation of the United States. [5]
McMurdo Station briefly gained global notice when an anti-war protest took place on February 15, 2003. During the rally, about 50 scientists and station personnel gathered to protest against the coming invasion of Iraq by the United States. McMurdo Station was the only Antarctic location to hold such a rally. [27]
Mount Erebus in Antarctica from Castle Rock, near McMurdo Station Looking north at Erebus Ice tongue with, from left the right, the islands of Tent, Inaccessible, Big Razorback and Little Razorback Beaufort Island – This small island at the northern entrance to McMurdo Sound is a protected area due to its site as a penguin rookery.
The Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center (CSEC), located at McMurdo Station, was dedicated in November 1991 by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The laboratory is named in honor of geophysicist and glaciologist Albert P. Crary.
The base of the Hut Point Peninsula is home to McMurdo Station, Scott Base and Discovery Hut. Scott's Hut is further north on the west coast, at Cape Evans. North of this at Cape Royds is Shackleton's Hut. Finally, the Cape Bird Hut is just south of Cape Bird. [2] McMurdo Station, established in 1955, is the largest station in Antarctica.
McMurdo Station sign. McMurdo Station (77°51' S, 166°40' E), the largest U.S. station in Antarctica, is situated on barren volcanic hills at the southern tip of Ross Island, about 3,827 km (2,378 mi) south of Christchurch, New Zealand and 1,350 km (840 mi) north of the South Pole. The station sits on the eastern shore of McMurdo Sound, the ...
The McMurdo station has permanent access to a shared 17 Mbps connection; testing of the Starlink service began in September 2022, [5] with a second terminal providing connectivity for the Allan Hills field camp brought in November 2022. [6] [7] As of January 2025, Starlink was working for the cruise ship Scenic Eclipse II, as far South as ...
Arriving at McMurdo Station, the two-man crew interview some maintenance and support workers and iceberg geologist Douglas MacAyeal. They travel to a nearby seal camp supervised by zoologist Olav Oftedal, then join the film's composer/producer, research diver Henry Kaiser , at a diving camp.