The fabulous continent of Antarctica: thousands of miles away from the nearest Papa John's.

An aerial view of the South Pole Station

Everything and everybody gets to the South Pole station by cargo plane.

A postcard image of the entrance to the South Pole station.

Robert Scott's hut down in Antarctica.

The Antarctic version of a Zamboni. One of our tasks was to clear the couple of feet of snow that builds up on the dome over the winter.

Going to the South Pole even got me in Parade Magazine.

Domino's South Pole Delivery: in your hands in thirty days or your money back.

No penguins wanted to have their pictures taken, so we had to bring in a stunt penguin.

I think we're going to need more than an scraper to get the ice off the windshield.

Me raising a Norwegian flag on December 14, 1991, the 80th anniversary of Roald Amundsen being the first person to reach the South Pole.

A painting of the same historic moment.

  

Me with the same flag standing in front of the South Pole marker. 

Below are some animated Gifs of social networks seen at the South Pole Station (created using Mage and GIF Construction Set ). Each frame represents a consecutive month (April thru October) during the winter-over stay.

The green ball represents the Station Manager, while the blue and yellow balls represent the scientists and the non-scientist members of the crew (respectively). The red balls were used as framing to ensure that the scaling from month to month stayed consistent.
 

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

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