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i didn't know they had streets in Antarctica :-) great pictures.

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That depends on your definition of "street". They do, after all, have one of the most extreme highways on Earth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo-South_Pole_highway

I would pay money to cruise down that in Street View. I wonder if you could stick the Street View photo module on top of one of those Snow Cats and hit record next time they do a run?

They have bus drivers. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_Wo...

Interesting documentary.

I've always wanted to go down there. There's even a few couchsurfers down there

It isn't an impossible dream. There are regular jobs available at McMurdo base and Scott Base and they need IT staff. I know two people who spend 6 months or so every year working down there and they are addicted to it, constantly drawn back to the beauty. They have a lots of amazing stories. You can also of course just make the trip as a tourist.

That sounds interesting. How did your friends go about getting those jobs? It sounds like the kind of thing i'd do. I'd prefer not going down their as a tourist; I'd rather be involved in something if I were spending time there.

I'm not sure how they got started (they've been going for years and years). I don't have an easy way to reach them right now to ask, but a quick Google came up with these which may serve as starting points: http://www.coolantarctica.com/Community/find_a_job_in_antarc... http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/jobsAndOpportunities/index.cfm?m...

Thanks for the links, reading through them now. Lots of great info.

Thank you for your recommendation on this documentary. I watched it just now and it is powerful.

Many sincere thanks!

-Igor

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