Antarctica like you've never seen it before

Unrelated, but one of my favorite things about Antarctica is a terribly irreverent and incredibly amusing activity of many temporary residents in the area -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club</a>

Wow, what an interesting thing to stumble across. I happen to work for the Polar Geospatial Center and deal with satellite imagery and map-making for both poles all the time. In fact, several of our staff are in the process of deploying to McMurdo where they support the US mission with maps and other GIS related activities. One staffer, Brad Herried, shot most of the Google Streetview material from Antarctica. Nice to see it's appreciated!

Here's something I really love: Walk-through the Amundson Scott South Pole Station <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdM9sYXmVrY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdM9sYXmVrY</a>

Anyone know why this page refers to Litchfield Island as "the island most frequently seen in dreams?"

The project page <a href="http://antarctica.localwiki.org/" rel="nofollow">http://antarctica.localwiki.org/</a> seems to be down.

This is amazing! How long until we can rent a romotive or iPad Double or tacocopter to drive around and "see the place for ourselves"?

Well, there was this hack by MapBox<p><a href="http://tiles.mapbox.com/zac/map/antarctica" rel="nofollow">http://tiles.mapbox.com/zac/map/antarctica</a><p>No high-res satellite imagery though.<p>Just don't forget to visit the McMurdo Dry Valleys<p><a href="https://maps.google.com/?ll=-77.547723,160.916748&#38;spn=0.253188,2.113495&#38;t=h&#38;z=10" rel="nofollow">https://maps.google.com/?ll=-77.547723,160.916748&#38;spn=0....</a>