The following video claims that there are 80 stations. I'll have to look at the Wikipedia entry on stations again as well as other maps. The concept of the video is interesting-- I've posted it in this blog before. Today, however, I have a better understanding of the various stations and travel between them as well as fuel depots, GPS stations, and other aspects of Antarctica so it's interesting to revisit this approach.
Below the video is the first map I chose to correlate what is shown in the video with the standard map of Antarctica's research stations with clear latitude and longitude lines. As the video plays, you can scroll down quick to see where the station is, then scroll back up. Stop the video if you like to really get a lock on where you are, on the map.
There's more to be done in this post because there are stations mentioned in the video that I do NOT see on the up-to-date map below but again-- the concept is very good. Certainly the Google earth view can be used to detect convexity vs. concavity as well-- which should correspond to Antarctica as a rim or island but the video doesn't really make that as clear as I'd like. It appears convex, consistent with an island but the photos are arrayed pieces like a puzzle so manipulation is possible and likely. Anyway, I'll review the following video again and post updates below as I'm able to.
Below the video is the first map I chose to correlate what is shown in the video with the standard map of Antarctica's research stations with clear latitude and longitude lines. As the video plays, you can scroll down quick to see where the station is, then scroll back up. Stop the video if you like to really get a lock on where you are, on the map.
There's more to be done in this post because there are stations mentioned in the video that I do NOT see on the up-to-date map below but again-- the concept is very good. Certainly the Google earth view can be used to detect convexity vs. concavity as well-- which should correspond to Antarctica as a rim or island but the video doesn't really make that as clear as I'd like. It appears convex, consistent with an island but the photos are arrayed pieces like a puzzle so manipulation is possible and likely. Anyway, I'll review the following video again and post updates below as I'm able to.
Kudos to you. Couple of initial thoughts: (1) the Antarctica treaty prevents you from coming within something like 60-100 miles of the shore without a permit, how will you verify your location?; (2) I don't necessarily think that flat earth says Antarctica doesn't exist as Admiral Byrd said he found a continent bigger than the U.S. beyond the south pole - it's possible that there's an ice rim beyond Antarctica; (3) can others join you on this voyage? (4) please track whether Antarctica receives 24-days of daylight.
ReplyDeleteThis is a virtual tour so there's no problem with permits. I'll track others who worry about that sort of thing.
ReplyDeleteLocation verification is a big problem. I don't even understand how to figure out how fast boats and airplanes go.
There is no South Pole if Earth is flat so even Byrd didn't say it correctly. Now that you mention it, how could he know that there's a continent bigger than the US beyond, say, any point, without having gone there? Maybe he was speaking figuratively and it sounded more official to say what he did rather than "holy sh** this place is f***** huuuuge!"
You can join me in this blog as I voyage VIRTUALLY.
Yeah about the daylight hours... that gets tricky once you dive into it. Currently I'm assembling webcams from all the research stations. I haven't taken the time to understand that daylight problem.
thanks for your input.
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I post for you Rick. Why does the Apostel Andrey needed two journeys to circumnavigat the Antarctis? Because outside of December-Januar the temperature drop quickly below -10 degres Centigrade. That would make any water that washes up on the ship and air moisture like fog freeze on where ever it has contact to on the ship. Maybe on a yacht one can handel that by hammering it of all day long. But imagine that work on board a ship like Cook used. It would freeze till its top 20-30 meters/60-90 feet high, including the hemp sails, the hemp roopes, the hemp cloth and handshoes of the sailors.
During Antarctic "winter time" July-August there will be very little light, as in winter time in the north. It would be very dangerous to sail under that kind of lightning condition in ocean waters full of icebergs.
You mentioned in your sailing distance calculation 10 hours sailing time, no they are out in the wilderness and will be mostly sailing 24 hours a day. The biggest sailing boats i have traveld on where tourboats so small they had no kitchen but sleeping places, from this experience I would calculate about 5-6-7 miles per hour average in December-January at day time and somewhat less at night. Outside of this month I guess the wind will probably be very strong if not violent. The guy from the Apostel gave the value of 15m/s-54km/h-30knots, thats already above of strong winds. That said, the distance mentioned in all probability, because of thinking of how long they will be able to stay in heavy cold weather around Antarctica, includ the distance to and from the homebase to Antartica. Sorry, I hope that helps.