South Pole Winter 2018


Above, the 2018 winterover photo, by Hans Boenish. With a celestial event going on overhead, the 28 July total lunar eclipse, which was only total between 0730 and 0913 SP time. Hans reported that the temperature was -55ºF, with winds of 25 knots gusting to 32 knots. BRRR! Oh, the other celestial object above the eclipsed Moon is the planet Mars. Here's a larger view of Mars and the Moon by Johannes Werthebach.

The forty 2018 winterovers are...

Malcolm Arnold Denise Atwood Joshua Blattel Hans Boenish Zane Burnett Raffaela Busse Dennis Calhoun Steele Diggles

Tony Durick Dan Ellis Patrick Finnegan Hans Boenish Cherisa Friedlander Luis Antonio Gonzalez Peter Gougeon Janelle Hakala

Adam Hopper Bill Johnson Adam Jones Travis Kamiya Brent Kunzler Lester Lemon Zeke Mills Joshua Montgomery

Kyle Morrison Aaron Phelps Ray Reed Michael Rueb Steve Sanders Ben Sawyer Robert Schwarz Sabrina Shemet

Ta-Lee Shue Robert Streeter Marco Tortonese Fabian Valdez Ted Violette Kim Williams David Wolf Eric Woolley

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Above, the midwinter greeting card that was sent out to all of the other Antarctic stations.


Here's a larger view of the greeting card photo, which was taken on the observation deck above DA by Johannes Werthebach. More than one cardboard dinosaur has been sighted at Pole this winter.

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Here's the menu for the midwinter dinner, which was held on Saturday 23 June.
The awesome dinner was orchestrated by head chef Zeke Mills (who shared
this photo), with lots of help!

And here's Robert Schwarz's photo of the folks waiting for dinner.