Historical features

Some newer (or not so new) stuff you may not have seen:

• That McMurdo wind farm!
• The The 1974 Negatives project--a unique look at the last winter in Old Pole thanks to some negatives found years later by the Pole Souls!
• The late Marty Pomerantz...the dedication of MAPO in December 1994...with links to his obituary, more coverage, and commentary on the MAPO dedication by grad student Rodney Marks,
  who was just finishing his first summer at Pole and would miss the ceremony by a day.
• About the very first South Pole marker as seen at the top of this page
• All about SPRESSO, that remote seismic site (or, what is that orange thing atop the Cheese Palace?)
• Reinhold Messner's visit to Pole during his Antarctic crossing along with Arved Fuchs. This page includes my exclusive audio copy of his talk in the gym on 1 January 1990.
• More than you ever wanted to know about those ice tunnels...
• ...and the Rodwell...and video of that explosion
• Oops! The NYANG aircraft that found a crevasse in December 1998. Yes, with pictures.
• Gardening and those midwinter 1961 hamster races
• The McMurdo incinerator
• Yes, a Russian doctor did actually remove his own appendix (!)
• TE 901: that Air New Zealand tourist flight that crashed into Mount Erebus
• ...and the real story of that helicopter that crashed on Mt. Erebus in 1971
• Marty Pomerantz and the first submillimeter telescope project with liquid helium Emilie
• A few years later, Marty with the ATT Bell Labs team in CMBR Land
• Old South Pole Station Sealed (the 1977 Antarctic Journal article)

The older references...

• The photo page from 1959 McMurdo
• About the Byrd memorials in McMurdo, Wellington, and Dunedin
• Demolition of BIT--clearing the way for the first phase of the new station!
• The origin and story of the first "Round the World Race"
• The REAL story about Byrd's chocolate bar, supposedly found at Pole!
• The NEW time capsule, buried in the foundation of the elevated station
• Air Force to the rescue--130's called in on short notice to resupply the inland stations--in January 1960!
• Carl Disch goes for a walk...the tragic 1965 winter tale from Byrd Station
• 321 recovery from East Antarctica...the full story
• The first women to visit Pole in November 1969
• The mystery of the IGY Time Capsule (originally inside the hut you see in Cliff Dickey's 1957 photo above)
• Building the Dome...station construction photos from the old days
• Last Sunset...March 2000 photos by Rodney Marks
• Who was Williams, and why is this field named after him???
• The FIRST winter medevac--Byrd Station, April 1961...with a twist!
• The first true internet access from Pole
• 917, that crashed plane at the end of the skiway...
• and Max Conrad's aircraft--the OTHER crashed plane at the end of the other skiway
• Dry Gulch, Antarctica (or, the construction camp before the great fire of 1976)
• Old Pole, a tunnel runs through it, or, the night the lights went out...by Dick Wolak
• The NMCB-71 signboard in the biomed arch
• the blue ice runway surveys...
• McMurdo's Chapel of the Snows, a look back
• About those SP 90 License Plates