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Antarctica Facts
Posted on 7/24/24 at 12:23 am
Posted on 7/24/24 at 12:23 am
Weird little place down there on the south pole....
Did you know that it's illegal to travel to the continent and you can be placed in jail for visiting (1 year per offense)?
The airspace of the south pole is restricted, you cannot fly a plane, drone, or any other sort of device down there, without falling under the penalty of law.
In total around 5,000 live there in the summer and 1,000 people in the winter.
Gravity Anomalies have been found on the continent ( Wilkes Land Anomaly)
Has anyone on the OT visited Antarctica? Would love to hear your experiences on the most mysterious continent of them all.
Did you know that it's illegal to travel to the continent and you can be placed in jail for visiting (1 year per offense)?
The airspace of the south pole is restricted, you cannot fly a plane, drone, or any other sort of device down there, without falling under the penalty of law.
In total around 5,000 live there in the summer and 1,000 people in the winter.
Gravity Anomalies have been found on the continent ( Wilkes Land Anomaly)
Has anyone on the OT visited Antarctica? Would love to hear your experiences on the most mysterious continent of them all.
This post was edited on 7/24/24 at 12:27 am
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Posted on 7/24/24 at 12:31 am to DeBoersTheMan
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Posted on 7/24/24 at 12:31 am to DeBoersTheMan
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In total around 5,000 live there in the summer and 1,000 people in the winter.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 12:45 am to Roberteaux
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I'm not saying any of that because I don't have a clue. I think it's odd that we can't fly planes 40,000 ft in the air above that area, but can do so anywhere else on this planet. Don't you?
Posted on 7/24/24 at 12:48 am to Roberteaux
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iTs fLaTtTTttt
Funny that the reason I went to Antarctica was to climb Vinson Massif (one of the Seven Summits) which is over 16k ft and higher than anything in CONUS.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 12:49 am to DeBoersTheMan
Great…so Antarctica has a more strict border policy than America.
Who even enforces that? The king of Antarctica?
Who even enforces that? The king of Antarctica?
Posted on 7/24/24 at 12:55 am to Shamoan
I’m not saying it’s Aliens….
Posted on 7/24/24 at 12:57 am to Shamoan
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Who even enforces that?
Posted on 7/24/24 at 1:09 am to DeBoersTheMan
60-90% of the world’s fresh water is locked in Antarctica’s vast ice sheet.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 1:11 am to DeBoersTheMan
Antarctica is home to several volcanoes and two of them are active. Mount Erebus, the second-highest volcano in Antarctica, is the southernmost active volcano on Earth.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 1:15 am to DeBoersTheMan
Posted on 7/24/24 at 1:43 am to DeBoersTheMan
A small portion is a Nazi military base
The other 3/4 are aliens
The other 3/4 are aliens
This post was edited on 7/24/24 at 1:55 am
Posted on 7/24/24 at 2:59 am to Obtuse1
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Antarctica was to climb Vinson Massif
That's cool.
How do you navigate. I always imagined close to the poles compasses would act strange. Gps available?
Posted on 7/24/24 at 4:28 am to DeBoersTheMan
I always found it interesting that several countries went hard about explaining Antarctica and even having bases there.
And then magically, after all the exploration in WWII and shortly afterwards, the Antarctic treaty was signed restricting anyone from being able to do very much there. You can go there but you are restricted to specific areas and can’t fly over it at all.
You even take a boat down there and get close and start looking around, a naval vessel will show up and ask you to leave.
Just weird that it suddenly became a restricted area
And then magically, after all the exploration in WWII and shortly afterwards, the Antarctic treaty was signed restricting anyone from being able to do very much there. You can go there but you are restricted to specific areas and can’t fly over it at all.
You even take a boat down there and get close and start looking around, a naval vessel will show up and ask you to leave.
Just weird that it suddenly became a restricted area
Posted on 7/24/24 at 5:11 am to DeBoersTheMan
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Has anyone on the OT visited Antarctica? Would love to hear your experiences on the most mysterious continent of them all.
Headed there in November.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 5:21 am to DeBoersTheMan
I took an oceanography course at LaTech in the mid 80’s with a geology professor who was also a highly trained diver.
He spent several class sessions showing us the slide images he took from an Antarctic expedition he was part of. He had a sub glacial iceberg named after him as he was the first to discover it was separate from the main iceberg. He also had a sponge species named after him when he proved it too was a separate species. He spent years studying the South Pacific atolls where the military had been conducting nuclear weapon tests.
Learned a lot of things from his class and smile remembering the good times.
He spent several class sessions showing us the slide images he took from an Antarctic expedition he was part of. He had a sub glacial iceberg named after him as he was the first to discover it was separate from the main iceberg. He also had a sponge species named after him when he proved it too was a separate species. He spent years studying the South Pacific atolls where the military had been conducting nuclear weapon tests.
Learned a lot of things from his class and smile remembering the good times.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 6:12 am to DeBoersTheMan
If you go take the Drake passage. The most treacherous body of water to cross to get there. Turbulent waves and winds the make you feel like you are sinking. I also hear the Drake passage contains a massage sea snake.
Posted on 7/24/24 at 6:18 am to DJNOS1978
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the Drake passage contains a massage sea snake.
I’ll bet there’s a whole lot of auto-snake massaging among the 1,000 during the winter deployments…
Posted on 7/24/24 at 6:46 am to DeBoersTheMan
It’s on my list and I’ve been researching fairly hard. My wife is hard pressed against taking the cruise across the drakes passage bc it’s so unpredictable. The flights across that ocean are incredibly expensive as well.
This post was edited on 7/24/24 at 6:47 am
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