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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... minus five in London the weather is headline news and the trains grind to a standstill and it feels worse at home ... minus six degrees Celsius to a windchill factor of minus twenty - eight . The Crary Lab was a long , wet - cement ...
... minus five in London the weather is headline news and the trains grind to a standstill and it feels worse at home ... minus six degrees Celsius to a windchill factor of minus twenty - eight . The Crary Lab was a long , wet - cement ...
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... minus 29 degrees Celsius . This was the coldest temperature I had ever experienced , though I had once been in New York when it was minus 23. Had I spent the previous winter in the hamlet of Crask Inn in northern Scotland I would have ...
... minus 29 degrees Celsius . This was the coldest temperature I had ever experienced , though I had once been in New York when it was minus 23. Had I spent the previous winter in the hamlet of Crask Inn in northern Scotland I would have ...
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... minus three degrees Celsius , whereas at Rothera it is a sweaty two degrees above zero . At the Pole , the January mean is minus twenty - eight . It can reach minus fifty at McMurdo in the winter , but the lowest temperature ever ...
... minus three degrees Celsius , whereas at Rothera it is a sweaty two degrees above zero . At the Pole , the January mean is minus twenty - eight . It can reach minus fifty at McMurdo in the winter , but the lowest temperature ever ...
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