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kmusserI'm going to celebrate not being in Facebook jail with a new virtual journey, and it's back to Antarctica, did I mention that Antarctica is large? We are at 74.41° S, 136.17° E. The point here is very similar in it's environment to point #4, but that is over 1,000 miles away, so lets go with it even if it'll be short one.
Physical geography:
We're on the edge of Dome Charlie, a high point on the Antarctic Ice Sheet where the ice is over 2 miles thick. Like our other Antarctica points there is nothing but ice and snow here and the terrain is particularly featureless. It's probably never been above freezing here, temperatures average -20° F in the summer and -80° F in the winter. I wouldn't expect there to be any life here, but Wikipedia reports skua sometimes seen flying overhead.
Human geography:
Like the previously mentioned point we are in the part of Antarctica nominally claimed by Australia, but it's open to all. Our closest habitation is Concordia Station, about 235 miles away, closer to the center of the Dome. Concordia is one of 3 permanent stations in the continents interior, the others being Vostok, which we talked about previously, and Amundsen–Scott at the South Pole. Concordia was first built as a summer camp in 1992 and became a permanent station in 2005. It now houses about 50 people in the summer and 12 in the winter. It is a joint French-Italian run station, and like Vostok it is primarily in the business of taking ice cores. The oldest sample being 900,000 years old. Concordia is being considered as a possible telescope location because of the awesome visibility there. It's also sometimes used by the European Space Agency for experiments as it's one of the places on Earth that comes closest to simulating conditions in space.
Besides Concordia, to get to the outside world you could go either for 500 miles north to the Southern Ocean coast and not far is the French Dumont d'Urville Station which has been there since 1956 and it notable for being the filming location for March of the Penguins. Or you can go 500 miles to the east to the Ross Sea and be not far from the Italian Zucchelli Station, founded in 1985. Both of those stations have connections to Concordia, supplies come overland from Dumont d'Urville and the path connecting them probably comes within 100 miles of our point (hard to tell as detailed satellite imagery is not available there). People usually fly in from Zucchelli and those flights would go over our point, there is an emergency refueling airstrip halfway in between them that is about 150 miles from our point.
I'll leave you with a shot of a supply run going from Dumont d'Urville to Concordia.
Physical geography:
We're on the edge of Dome Charlie, a high point on the Antarctic Ice Sheet where the ice is over 2 miles thick. Like our other Antarctica points there is nothing but ice and snow here and the terrain is particularly featureless. It's probably never been above freezing here, temperatures average -20° F in the summer and -80° F in the winter. I wouldn't expect there to be any life here, but Wikipedia reports skua sometimes seen flying overhead.
Human geography:
Like the previously mentioned point we are in the part of Antarctica nominally claimed by Australia, but it's open to all. Our closest habitation is Concordia Station, about 235 miles away, closer to the center of the Dome. Concordia is one of 3 permanent stations in the continents interior, the others being Vostok, which we talked about previously, and Amundsen–Scott at the South Pole. Concordia was first built as a summer camp in 1992 and became a permanent station in 2005. It now houses about 50 people in the summer and 12 in the winter. It is a joint French-Italian run station, and like Vostok it is primarily in the business of taking ice cores. The oldest sample being 900,000 years old. Concordia is being considered as a possible telescope location because of the awesome visibility there. It's also sometimes used by the European Space Agency for experiments as it's one of the places on Earth that comes closest to simulating conditions in space.
Besides Concordia, to get to the outside world you could go either for 500 miles north to the Southern Ocean coast and not far is the French Dumont d'Urville Station which has been there since 1956 and it notable for being the filming location for March of the Penguins. Or you can go 500 miles to the east to the Ross Sea and be not far from the Italian Zucchelli Station, founded in 1985. Both of those stations have connections to Concordia, supplies come overland from Dumont d'Urville and the path connecting them probably comes within 100 miles of our point (hard to tell as detailed satellite imagery is not available there). People usually fly in from Zucchelli and those flights would go over our point, there is an emergency refueling airstrip halfway in between them that is about 150 miles from our point.
I'll leave you with a shot of a supply run going from Dumont d'Urville to Concordia.