2014 Trip to the South Pole

Traveling to the South Pole and searching for meteorites on the ice for science have always been a dream. I wanted to go to the eclipse in 2003, but then newly retired with my assets just recovering from the dot com resession, it was not the time.

In February of 2013 I was listening to a presentation by Landon Noll to a local astronomy club on his meteorite search. I realized I was listening to a presentation on the 2013 trip. I decided at that point that I was going to be on the next trip.

Panoramas of Trip

click on the images below to explore some detailed panoramas of the trip

Union Glacier Camp from Tent Area

South Pole from South Pole Camp

Union Glacier Camp from Ski Runway

Trip Pictures

These will link to the individual days. The story of each trip can be followed using the text of the page. Otherwise you can just browse the pictures.

click on the picture to get the full story of the day
Dec 30 -31	Travel to Chile Why I will no longer be flying American out of San Jose
Jan 1	Arrival
Jan 2	Getting our winter gear Shopping in Punta Arenas Penguins
Jan 3	Departure
Jan 4 (really early)	Arrival in Union Glacier
Jan 4 (after some sleep)	Camp Tour
Jan 5	Ski and Meteorite Hunt 1
Jan 6	Flight to the Pole Station visit
Jan 7	Visit South Pole
Jan 8	Return to Union Glacier
Jan 9	Meteorite Hunting 2
Jan 10 - 11	Return Home

Resources

ANI/ALE - operator in Antarctica
Map of Union Glacier Area
Map of ANI sites
Station, Area, Dark Sector Map of South Pole
360 degree view from Dark Sector Laboratory

About these Pages

I started collecting my pictures on a Mac during my 2013 Africa trip. But then I had to move them to the PC and use some rather combersome tools to create the site. One of the trip members worked for Apple and told me about Aperture. Sure enough everything, except this cover page, was generated as Web Journels on Aperture.

Copyright

The South Pole 2014 pages by Robert J. Hawley are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. This permits the non commercial use of the material on this site, either in whole or in part, in other works provided that I am credited for the work and you apply this or similar license to the result. Some of the included works bear a similar copyright.

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