Photos from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica
by Mike Savage (mlsavage@clear.net.nz) On this page I've placed 3 photos from those I took in 1980 while wintering-over at the Pole with a group of 16 others. I served as the meteorologist. The top photo shows me with the geodesic dome of the station in the background. The U.S. flag flies above the dome as it is the USA which operates this station and provides the aircraft support that is required to maintain an inland Antarctic station. The altitude at Pole station is about 3000 meters, and the winter temperatures are minus 60 degrees C and below. The second photo shows one of the crew (Eric Kramer, I think) perched atop the snowed-in entry way into the dome after the long winter season was coming to an end. The persistent wind had filled the entry-way with driven snow which had to be dug out by a front-end loader. The third photo shows the sun setting on the horizon on the autumnal equinox in March. After a slow sunset followed by a few weeks of twilight we settled in for 5 months of darkness before the sun began to light the sky in September.
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