Terra Incognita: Travels in AntarcticaJ. Cape, 1996 - Всего страниц: 306 Sara Wheeler was the first woman selected by the American government to be the Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station. She spent six weeks at the pole. In this book she reveals how people live on the bases and how the landscape affects them. |
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... Pole , 2850 metres or 9,300 feet , meant I was standing on a layer of ice almost one third of the height of Mount Everest . In addition , the earth's atmosphere is at its most shallow at the Poles . The combination of altitude and ...
... Pole , 2850 metres or 9,300 feet , meant I was standing on a layer of ice almost one third of the height of Mount Everest . In addition , the earth's atmosphere is at its most shallow at the Poles . The combination of altitude and ...
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... Pole is shifted about thirty feet each year to compensate for ice drift . The layer of ice , basically , is moving steadily over the surface of the earth far below it , with the result that once a year a member of staff from the U.S. ...
... Pole is shifted about thirty feet each year to compensate for ice drift . The layer of ice , basically , is moving steadily over the surface of the earth far below it , with the result that once a year a member of staff from the U.S. ...
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... Pole was an American race , whereas there were no Americans in the south when Shackleton and Scott were manhauling ... Pole is on floating ice . Second , the Arctic Circle has an indigenous population . People can live within it ...
... Pole was an American race , whereas there were no Americans in the south when Shackleton and Scott were manhauling ... Pole is on floating ice . Second , the Arctic Circle has an indigenous population . People can live within it ...
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