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Date Taken:

December 16, 2008

Photograph By:

Paul Thur, NSF

License Type:

Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

The South Pole Traverse vehicles parked at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The 2008-2009 traverse took 88 days to travel from McMurdo to the South Pole and back to McMurdo. This included almost two weeks in a crevasse-riddled area called the Shear Zone and 11 days at Pole unloading cargo and reloading waste cargo. The traverse averaged 26 miles per day heavily loaded with cargo going uphill to Pole and 41.5 miles per day more lightly loaded on the return downhill trip to McMurdo.

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Cargo, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0., Creative Commons, Flag, NSF

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