This is the "news season" for Pole so stuff is scrolling off the site quickly. There is a menu item on the left side of the news site to "list all articles" ...
Bit of Antarctic Trivia, Can anyone on the list tell me who and when was the first "Solo crossing of Antarctica". A recent email to me stated that it had never...
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Fred Goldberg
Material.data@...
Jan 26, 2001 5:01 pm
Hello Brendon The Norvegian adventurer Börge Ousland was the first the cross Antarctica solo . He started the 15th of November from Berkner Island, arrived at...
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Jeroen François
jfrancois@...
Jan 26, 2001 7:36 pm
South Pole construction offers Mars rehearsal: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/southpole010125.html...
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Bill Spindler
spindle@...
Jan 27, 2001 3:04 am
This goal turned into a race between 3 men during 1996-97: Marek Kaminski http://www.polchan.com/kaminski.htm ...he gave up just past Pole; Roger Mear...
http://www.bellona.no see "Nuclear powered Icebreakers" section...
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Brendon Grunewald
brendon@...
Jan 28, 2001 4:34 pm
Dear List, 70South news: 1. As announced last week, the translation and posting of educational articles continues, with more history articles have been added...
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Brendon Grunewald
brendon@...
Jan 28, 2001 9:41 pm
Dear List, Due to the geographic and language diversity of the visitors to 70South, we have integrated an easy to use translation service into the 70South site...
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upizauf@...
Jan 29, 2001 12:37 am
Brendon: I speak fluent Usarpese with a slight Navy accent, but since the program was changed to USAP I am having a hard time understanding the jargon. For ...
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Steven McLachlan
steve@...
Jan 29, 2001 12:06 pm
Billy-Ace, the Australians have just recently published a Dictionary of Antarctic words for people like you. "beakers" is certainly the current name for...
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Non-Government News
tourism@...
Jan 29, 2001 10:19 pm
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M.de Jong
polaris@...
Jan 30, 2001 3:02 pm
Hello all, As some of you might remember, the editor of the ANTARCTIC NON-GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES NEWSLETTER, Martin Betts, and I had some problems to have the...
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M.de Jong
polaris@...
Jan 30, 2001 4:22 pm
Hello all, I've added to the Polar Post Offices section at http://join.at/polar-philately a photo of the Post Office at New Zealand's Scott Base as in...
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upizauf@...
Jan 30, 2001 7:50 pm
Steven: I hope that you do realize that my email about speaking USARPese was a bit of tongue-in-check. However, I would really be interested in finding out...
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Bill Spindler
spindle@...
Jan 30, 2001 11:55 pm
I just received my copy of "The Antarctic Dictionary, A Complete Guide to Antarctic English" by Bernadette Hince, published by CSIRO Publishing and Museum of...
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Kevin O'Reilly
xcarc@...
Jan 31, 2001 12:01 am
Michael Sorry for the delay in responding to this e-mail. Gray Scrimgeour is the editor of "The Northerner", the newsletter of the Northern Canada Postal...
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Wes
kg0yh@...
Jan 31, 2001 1:49 am
Is anyone else having trouble accessing the group after the changes? I can't seem to get to anyone, nor will I be able to read the messages to see if this...
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upizauf@...
Jan 31, 2001 1:54 am
Bill: I noticed that you also crossed this info to the OAEs-and-FNGs list. Thanks. I wonder why I haven't seen anything about this in Aurora. The last copy of ...
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Steven McLachlan
steve@...
Jan 31, 2001 8:18 am
Michael and others, The Law Base postmark is not currently in use and hasn't been for some years although I'm not sure at present when the last use was. I have...
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Steven McLachlan
steve@...
Jan 31, 2001 8:19 am
Hi Billy-Ace, The Australian book is an interesting one but noty as good as it could have been. in my opinion it dwells too much on proper names of Antarctic...
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upizauf@...
Feb 1, 2001 4:51 am
Steven: I have suggested to the subscribers in my email group that we compile a Yank Antarctic Dictionary. Such a dictionary strictly limited to USN Antarctic ...
