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Antarctica like you've never seen it before
- stephengillie 14y agoThis is amazing! How long until we can rent a romotive or iPad Double or tacocopter to drive around and "see the place for ourselves"?
- philipn 14y agoSome scientists are alredy using aerial drones :) http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2012/10/10_03_12wayne_perryman.html http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2012/10/10_03_12wayne_perry...
- mxfh 14y agoWell, there was this hack by MapBox http://tiles.mapbox.com/zac/map/antarctica http://tiles.mapbox.com/zac/map/antarctica No high-res satellite imagery though. Just don't forget to visit the McMurdo Dry Valleys https://maps.google.com/?ll=-77.547723,160.916748&spn=0.253188,2.113495&t=h&z=10 https://maps.google.com/?ll=-77.547723,160.916748&spn=0....
- base 14y agoThe project page http://antarctica.localwiki.org/ http://antarctica.localwiki.org/ seems to be down.
- tokenadult 14y agoI just got a 503 error message. "Service Temporarily Unavailable "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
- jk4930 14y agoHere's something I really love: Walk-through the Amundson Scott South Pole Station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdM9sYXmVrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdM9sYXmVrY
- adambyrtek 14y agoYou can also see the Scott's hut on Street View: http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/scotts-hut/ http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/scotts-...
- cbaleanu 14y agoAnd that's why I love HN. I had no idea about that worldwonders page. Thanks!
- xbryanx 14y agoAnyone know why this page refers to Litchfield Island as "the island most frequently seen in dreams?"
- evincarofautumn 14y agoOddly enough, this very blog post is the only Google result I get for the quoted phrase. Anyway, the thing looks inkblotty and fractally enough that I could plausibly mistake any frosty island for it in a dream. Probably related to the fact that we regularly have déjà vu in places of which (we think) we’ve dreamt. Or at least I do.
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoI got one layer deeper. I googled the same thing, but I ended up here back at HN because this very conversation has already been indexed and is now a top search result.
- Lapsa 14y agogot exact same question
- D3 14y agoThey probably mean the island most seen in dreams by the inhabitants of that station.
- sharkweek 14y agoUnrelated, but one of my favorite things about Antarctica is a terribly irreverent and incredibly amusing activity of many temporary residents in the area -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club
- throwaway54-762 14y agoWikipedia claims they run naked, but one of the linked articles[0] says that they actually wear boots. I was wondering how they prevented frostbite... [0]: http://antarcticnet.tripod.com/300club.html http://antarcticnet.tripod.com/300club.html
- tmj 14y agoWow, what an interesting thing to stumble across. I happen to work for the Polar Geospatial Center and deal with satellite imagery and map-making for both poles all the time. In fact, several of our staff are in the process of deploying to McMurdo where they support the US mission with maps and other GIS related activities. One staffer, Brad Herried, shot most of the Google Streetview material from Antarctica. Nice to see it's appreciated!