South Pole Traverse
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south-pole-traverse-202-123046
title:
South Pole Traverse
text:
The South Pole Traverse, also called the South Pole Overland Traverse, is an approximately 995-mile-long (1,601 km) flagged route over compacted snow and ice 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. It was constructed by levelling snow and filling in crevasses; flags mark its route from McMurdo Station across the Ross Ice Shelf to the Leverett Glacier, where the route asc
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Highway in Antarctica
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Traverse
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date modified:
2024-04-18T04:05:50Z
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