As I continue to plan flights around the perimeter of Antarctica, it's going to be very useful to consider the hidden fuel depots, the known fuel depots, the fuel range of various airpanes and the entire fuel industry in Antarctic. Here is a sampler of the kinds of things I looked at today in Antarctica's "FUEL TRANSFER INDUSTRY".
The Germans also have a string of bases.Nice map and description here
ReplyDeletehttp://www.antarktis-station.de/antarktis/deutschestationen/
I note that one of the criteria for replacing Neumayer with Neumayer III was that it could reach Halley - implying some co-operation - without refuelling the planes of the Alfred Wegener Institute
[section 5.2.2]
http://www.awi.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Infrastructure/Stations/Neumayer_Station_III/Seite26-52.pdf
There are some maps with distances in sections 5.1 and 5.2. The AWI planes fly ice cores from Kohnen - EPICA, approx 500km inland. They are/were Dornier 228 aircraft.
Their newest plane in 2007, Polar 5 is a Basler BT-67 which has replaced Polar 4 which was damaged in a landing in 2005 in Rothera.
http://www.pro-physik.de/details/news/1122723/Neues_Flugzeug_fuer_die_Polarforschung.html
Hey you can book a holiday to the South Pole at the end of this year
http://www.polaradventures.de/AA-TAC-SUEDPOL-FLUG.html
and your DC3 #Bassler will refuel at 83S at a fuel dump. Eur 62,000 Cape Town - South Pole and back. Book while the Dollar is strong against the Euro!
Felix-- thanks-- I'll pick away at this. I'm not currently interested in inland trips- -no time or energy for that. South pole is a hoax on flat earth so it's a waste of time in my mission. Types of airplanes are good though. The Nuemayer II story is interesting.... anything having to do with refuelling from one base to another around the perimeter is good.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of drilling - apparently to collect ice cores - going on at Kohnen base.
ReplyDeleteThe logistics for Kohnen station is based mainly on land-transport facilities. Towing vehicles of the type Pistenbully are used. Each Pistenbully ** tows up to 20 tons distributed on up to three sledges. Altogether the vehicle fleet consists normally of about 6 towing vehicles, 12 sledges carrying goods and containers, 5 sledges with tank containers and accommodation facilities. Two traverses with up to 6 sledge trains have been performed each field season, which normally lasts from December until mid February.
Kohnen base is in the flight range of permanently occupied stations such as Halley, Neumayer and SANAE IV. The distance between Neumayer station and Kohnen base is about 757 kilometers. Depending on weather conditions, a traverse using GPS navigation takes 9-14 days. Small ski-equipped aircraft like Dornier 228, Twin Otter or Basler 67 (DC 3) can land adjacent to Kohnen base to transport personnel and ice-core between Neumayer and Kohnen base.
That's funny - "about 757km" seems quite precise , yet elsewhere we read that it's 500 km. [an error of over 50 percent!]
and is shown on this map as About 500km.
http://www.antarktis-station.de/images/forschungskartebr_720.gif
sources: http://www.antarktis-station.de/antarktis/deutschestationen/
http://www.awi.de/en/news/press_releases/detail/item/polarstern_back_from_the_antarctic/
Apparently, Kohnen was chosen because there has been a large amoung of snow accumulation in this part of the Antarctic [which is a desert essentially]
I can't find any quoted distance or timings between Halley and Kohnen.
** a kind of ultra-wide tracked Kässbohrer bulldozer - perhaps they're in competition with CAT?
I note that the Norwegians, when they inspected Kohnen in 2001, did not included Halley in the inspection.
http://www.ats.aq/documents/ATCM33/att/ATCM33_att067_e.pdf
Furthermore, the Norwegians never got to Russkiya, although they made numerous inspections before 1990.