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unusual facts about Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station


139th Airlift Squadron

During October 1999 the 109th AW aided in the rescue of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, a doctor with breast cancer symptoms and based at isolated Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.


British Polar Engines

The engine and company take their name from the engine supplied to Amundsen's Fram, from which he conquered the South Pole.

Cape Chelyuskin

The Maud continued eastwards into the Laptev Sea and the men were instructed to wait for the freeze-up of the Kara Sea and then sledge southwestwards towards Dikson carrying Amundsen's mail.

Chlorocardium rodiei

The Fram and the Endurance, made famous in the polar expeditions of Amundsen and Shackleton, were the two strongest wooden ships ever constructed and were sheathed in greenheart to prevent them from being crushed by ice.

Framheim

Huntford, Roland (1979) Scott and Amundsen (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd) ISBN 978-0-340-19565-9

Fredriksholm Fortress

At the fortress Fredriksholm stayed nearly a hundred Greenland dogs in anticipation of getting on board the Amundsen's ship Fram.

Frida Amundsen

Frida Waage Amundsen (born September 9, 1992) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter from Vaksdal.

Hersey Hawkins

Hawkins was named as an assistant by head coach Ty Amundsen for the 2006–2007 season at Estrella Foothills High School varsity basketball in Goodyear, Arizona.

Jacob Andreas Wille

He was born in Seljord to vicar (sogneprest) Hans Amundsen Wille and his wife Bolette Nilsdatter Møllerup.

Javier Cacho Gomez

Since his first visit to the Antarctic, his interest in the history of the exploration of the continent, and the result of years of study, has taken him to write a book” Amundsen-Scott: Duel in the Antarctic”(Forcola 2011), preface by Manuel Toharia and subsequently translated into Bulgarian language, and published by the publisher Ciela, preface by Christo Pimpirev.

John Howard Amundsen

An only child living with his mother in his Aspley childhood home, Amundsen was a loner who built few lasting friendships both at school and in the workplace.

Kathleen Scott

A biographer of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen has suggested that, in her husband's absence, she began a brief affair with Nansen, the mentor of Scott's rival Amundsen.

Marisat

It was relocated to 326.1 E (33.9º W), over the Atlantic ocean, and since 1999 F2 had been providing a wide-band data link for the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Program's Amundsen-Scott research station at the South Pole.

Monte Amundsen

Composer Marc Blitzstein was reportedly so delighted with Amundsen that he expanded her role in Juno (musical) to include three major songs: I Wish It So, For Love, and My True Heart, as well as a duet with Shirley Booth, The Bird Upon The Tree.

Neumayer-Station III

The above surface construction of Neumayer III is predominant in the Antarctic, seen at other new stations such as the American Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Base.

Nikolay Urvantsev

In 1922, while leading a geological expedition, Urvantsev found evidence of the mysteriously disappeared Amundsen's 1918 Arctic expedition crew members Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen.

Underground living

It is also the preferred mode of housing to communities in such extreme environments as Australia's Coober Pedy, Berber caves as those in Matmâta, Tunisia, and even Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.


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