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Article: Antarctic road to South Pole under study by Americans
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- AP Worldstream
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- February 10, 2003
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Dateline: WELLINGTON, New Zealand
A century after pioneer explorers with dogs and horse-drawn sleds
tried to cross from the Antarctica coast to the South Pole, American
engineers may carve a 1,600 kilometer (1,000 mile) track so supplies
can be driven to the pole.
The U.S.-based National Science Foundation has begun a three-year
study to establish the feasibility of the road from its McMurdo Station
on the frozen continent's Ross Sea coast to its South Pole base.
"We are in the proof of concept phase right now, it's a three-year
effort," foundation spokesman Arthur Brown said Monday.
"This is not a highway ... or a road, more a trail or a route," ...