Official treaty inspection tours raise questions in my mind.

Here are some excerpts from some inspection tours I looked at today. 

Here's an excerpt from an earlier inspection the in 1960s where we see "Group A" and "Group B". Why did they have to break up into 2 groups? Why not conduct one tour? It might be because the job involves too much travel and might not be possible with just one team. 

Here's an inspection map with no route-- only the stations inspected. Why not post the route?

Here's a partial circumnavigation which is more along the lines of what I'm interested in.  I haven't seen anything that describes what the method of selection is or how they decide on their route. If they're going almost all the way around, why not complete the trip? Because it's too far? Like 60,000 miles? 

Here is how many of the reports list dates of the various station stops. There is comprehensive LIST, just a description in a paragraph. No mileages are stated. Why not? Would that give away the situation? Are the dates correct? Who knows? 

This is one of the better maps. I had to cut it in two to make it fit my file. Note that it's almost a complete circumnavigation. I clearly shows the stops made. They travelled by ship. Why not conduct inspections via air? They never say. Too much refueling for the flat earth rim of 60,000 miles? Just guessing. 

Earlier reports are quite direct about disarming Antarctica... the first disarmament being perhaps the destruction of the German base New Shwabenland. I haven't seen any reports of flying saucers in the Antarctic Treaty reports however.

 Here's one of the only nice organized time tables I've seen.  Whether the dates are correct or not is impossible to say but at least they listed them. Time and mileage are the way we'll prove earth is flat or a globe so I'm always looking for time and date and mileage stamps on reports. 

Here's another example of stations with dates visited. No mileages though. Not sure how they travelled. 

Here's another early 1970's version of list of stations and dates. There was no map with this but there should be maps with all these routes. Of course, they weren't thinking about proving the world is round when they made the report so I suppose it's forgivable. Still-- I would have expected more maps with miles and dates than I've seen. 

source

ATS - Antarctic Treaty system

http://www.ats.aq/DevAS/ats_governance_listinspections.aspx?lang=e