SAI ACE Palson mission not good enogh to qalify as circmnavigation of Antarctica

Here's an example of a circmnavigation by one of the official Antarctic Treaty Inspection teams in 1983 ....

Here's what SAI ACE Paulson are calling a circumnavigation of Antarctica.

Palson is making a big deal of circmnavigating Antarctica....

I don't think we should consider Paulson's mission to have circmnavigated Antarctica because it was not close enough to the shoreline of Antarctica to qualify as such.

He is doing no more than the solo sailboats who claim to have sailed around the world. Here's how the sail-around-the-world solo routes look on a flat earth projection...

Why are these solo sailors not claiming to have circmnavigated Antarctica? Because they didn't really do that as you can can from the red line routes above. Neither is Paulson. Paulson is just repeating the same old tired route of many solo sailboats. Nothing proves otherwise.


Here again is the 1983 inspection tor... see the difference?


Here again is what Paulson's route looks like on flat earth....


And once again, on a flat earth, we can see how a few different routes can make or break a true cirmnavigation. Only the LIGHT BLuE line below would constitute a TRuE CIRCumnavigation... and even then, it would have to make contact with stations along with way. The GREEN and RED lines could be considered a circumnavigation of the world, in a sense-- or of the known continents. See the difference?