Here's a slightly expanded flat earth illustration with many coastline stations and a few interior stations with mileages taken from other sources. The mileages are obviously not correct on a flat earth but I install them here as a point of interest and further investigation. It's been said ALL trips to the south pole start in McMurdo-- which is a testable claim. If true, then the diagram below makes sense. Just as with those videos that show how international non stop flights make more sense on a flat earth than a globe, so too, I hope to make sense of the reports from airports and stations in Antarctica-- in the context of a flat earth Antarctica that spreads outward indefinitely. The fact that the Antarctic Treaty has NOT developed the 1968-1971 idea of an Antarctic transportation network is a primary reference point for me now. That level of cooperation would have made it easy to travel from station to station proving the distance is 60,000 miles, not 8000 miles. As it is, I have to gather my flight information piecemeal.
The Antarctic Plain expands outward indefinitely into the gray area. Elevation rises, oxygen thins and it's all uncharted as we move outward. Speculation by Math Boylan points to more "earth ponds" just like the one we're in, as illustrated above. The UNCLAIMED ZONE might be explained by the fact that there are no LAND AREAS of continental EARTH reaching down toward that shoreline as we see south of South American, South Africa and Australia. It bulges outward as well-- making it even MORE remote and inaccessible-- not worth the trouble.
TOYOTA TRUCKS DRIVE FROM NOVO TO SOUTH POLE?
Felix pointed to this "race" in the comments below raising questions about it's authenticity. I looked a bit further into it. It turns out that the trips to the supposed "interior" of Antarctica will be very useful in determining the true diameter of the island because multiple points of reference from the coast to the interior can be used to triangulate a coastal distance. There are more trips to the interior documented than trips on the perimeter between stations.
Take a look at the topographical map beside the route map of the island of Antarctica below-- without reference even to a flat earth Antarctica map. The elevations go from 0 to 15,000 feet, they say. So we're supposed to believe Toyota trucks can carry supplies and fuel to traverse mountains in 8 days to the south pole? No. I don't think so. Study the maps below for yourself. This "race" is apparently sponsored by a Swiss Antarctic group. They run it every few years.
Sure it was. They landed on the moon too. And 9/11 hijackers used boxcutters and brought down the trade centers by crashing planes into them. Yup. It's all true-- if you're willing to believe it to be true. Them Toyota 4 Wheel Drive veeHickles went up and down over the ice and snow of the most trecherous and coldest terrain on the planet... and back again-- several times-- without incident. Yup. Uh huh.
