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South Pole to Get Highway

Posted by michael on from the south-pole-highway-patrol-now-hiring dept.

tetrad writes "The New Scientist magazine reports that the US is building a road to the South Pole. The "highway" would cross the Ross Ice Shelf and then pass through the Transantarctic Mountains (map here). Convoys of tractors will be the only traffic on the road, bringing fuel and heavy equipment to the South Pole, as well as enabling the installation of a $250M fibre-optic communications cable (discussed previously)."

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  1. Re:Gas stations? by Ballsy · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Of course they won't. The signs will be in miles, since the US insist on maintaining their archaic measurement units instead of migrating to something more widely accepted, like metric.
    As for the guy working at the station, he'll be fine, as long as they build a Tim Horton's beside it.