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Save The Dome ... comments needed!

Posted Tue, 05/11/2010 - 12:53 by admin

As many of you may already know, the iconic South Pole Dome, after serving as home to generations of Polies for over 30 years, has been carefully disassembled and shipped back in pieces to the US. The pieces are currently in storage pending disposition. Disposition you say? Yes, there is an opportunity to influence the final disposition of this historic antarctic structure! The top three rings have a home but the bulk of the dome is hoping for an opportunity to regain it's status as a symbol of the US Antarctic effort. You can help by suggesting people to talk to, agencies to contact, places to visit, or any other ideas you might have to contribute. Please post your comments here! (you may be asked to sign up for an account to limit spam)

THE MANAGER OF THE SOUTH POLE

Posted Sun, 04/25/2010 - 11:55 by admin

I was interviewed by Dick Gordon of American Public Media's "The Story" about my year managing the South Pole Station and the efforts to "Save The Dome". Follow the link below for the complete podcast of the show, which starts with about 15 minutes of a story about the earthquake in Haiti before heading South to the Land of Ice and Snow.

The pulse at 90 south

Posted Tue, 04/20/2010 - 01:51 by admin

"I'm one of the 47 down here for the 2010 Winter season, the crew is missing the Dome. It was an icon in Antarctica, and this place feels like it's missing something without it." -- from the interwebs

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Major site upgrade

Posted Mon, 04/19/2010 - 13:32 by admin

Welcome to SaveTheDome.com!

Scott of the Antarctic

Posted Sun, 04/08/2012 - 20:20 by admin

Scott, Robert Falcon [known as Scott of the Antarctic] (1868-1912), naval officer and Antarctic explorer, was born on 6 June 1868 at Outlands, Milehouse, near Stoke Damerel, Devonport, the third of the six children of John Edward Scott (1830-1897), a brewer, and his wife, Hannah, the daughter of William Bennett Cuming, a Lloyd's surveyor.

Education and early career

March Madness

Posted Wed, 03/28/2012 - 22:03 by admin

In this season of marking South Pole centennials, March is the last and cruelest month. On March 17, 1912, a starved, injured and frostbitten Lawrence “Titus” Oates famously crawled out through the tube door of Robert Falcon Scott’s tent to die deliberately in a blizzard. His last words, “I am just going outside and may be some time,” were transcribed two days later by a storm-bound Scott, making notes as his own death closed in, ice crystals already claiming his insensate right foot. Two months earlier, Scott, Oates, Edgar “Taff” Evans, Edward Wilson, and Henry “Birdie” Bowers had reached the South Pole, but instead of a blank nexus of latitude and longitude in an unmapped wilderness of ice, they found Roald Amundsen’s tent and Norwegian flag.

Wilson, Edward Adrian

Posted Wed, 03/28/2012 - 21:59 by admin

Wilson, Edward Adrian (1872–1912), Antarctic explorer and naturalist, was born on 23 July 1872 at 6 Montpellier Terrace, Cheltenham, the second son and fifth child of the nine surviving children of Dr Edward Thomas Wilson FRCP (1832–1918), physician, and his wife, Mary Agnes (1841–1930), daughter of Bernhard Whishaw and his wife, Elizabeth. On his father's side he was descended from a long line of Quakers, the last of whom was his grandfather Edward Wilson (1772–1843), of Liverpool and Philadelphia, who acquired great wealth through land in the United States and early railways in Lancashire. His mother's family came from Cheshire, some of whom lived in St Petersburg as traders in the earlier nineteenth century.

Last words hang frozen for all time

Posted Wed, 03/28/2012 - 21:57 by admin

Look, they may not be the most famous and beloved words ever uttered in the English language but it's just that I can't think of any words that outdo them right now. And as today is the centenary of when they were uttered, it is worth looking at them again.

But already, we're ahead of ourselves …

For, you see, in the middle of March 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his three companions were fighting for their lives on their return from the South Pole.

Two months earlier they had reached the legendary spot of 90 degrees south, only to find they had been beaten there by 34 days by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his own companions.

UND exhibit explores ‘Cold Recall:’ the early 20th Century’s great race to the South Pole

Posted Wed, 03/28/2012 - 20:42 by admin

The University of North Dakota invites the public to view “Cold Recall: Reflections of a Polar Explorer” – a traveling poster exhibit that presents images from one of the greatest adventures of the early 20th century: the race to the South Pole.

The exhibit will be on display April 2-27 in the UND Chester Fritz Library.

Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole on Dec. 14, 1911, only a few weeks before Englishman Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen was celebrated in his native Norway and throughout the world for his achievement, considered one of the great triumphs of human endurance of the age.

A Father for my Son

Posted Sat, 03/10/2012 - 11:14 by admin

The Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott died a hundred years ago, leaving behind a fascinating and talented wife, the sculptor Kathleen Scott. Jenny Coverack's trilogy of readings is adapted from her own one-woman stage play, written with Robert Edwards, based on Kathleen Scott's autobiography and journals. These begin with Kathleen's unconventional childhood, when she was farmed out to relatives, before she took the bold and at the time unconventional decision to go to Paris to study art. Here, she mixes in Bohemian circles and is pursued by numerous admirers wanting to start affairs, but what matters most to her is the search for a man worthy of the role of father to the son she longs for.

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