Scott Base Video.wmv

Sea ice across the Lamarie Channel;
coldest environ on south-polar land;
osmosis reversed by working seabees;
terra flow minus forty-five degrees;
ten kilometers base camp from South Pole;

Bold Kiwis near Erebus roll out green plan;
across "White Continent" stuck on earth's tail;
shackelton for Ross renewed energy;
edmund hillary liked the synergy.
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The closest I ever gotten to the South Pole was in 2005 when I was in New Zealand. My tropical West Indian blood wouldn't allow me to venture any further so I settled for a virtual tour of Scott Base in Antarctica. This virtual tour began two years before the 50th Anniversary of Scott Base.

On the time-capsule, I arrived at Scott Base on January 20, 1957. Sir Edmund Hillary who had come down from Mount Everest a little over three years was there and was the first to winter over at Scott Base. In Antarctica, Sir Hillary lead 18 members the New Zealand component of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and five scientists from New Zealand in 1955-58, under the overall command of the British explorer Dr Vivian Fuchs . Sir Hillary on January 10, 1957 declared Scott Base open for scientific business and he along with Derek Wright and Murray Ellis arrived at the South Pole in their Ferguson tractors on 20 January 1958.

Without a doubt, the world has come to embrace and to respect the pioneers of Antarctica. The knowledge I have acquired from my virtual trip to Antarctica has given me the inspiration to pen this acrostic poem in pentameter verses rhyming abccd abcc on Scott Base during its early existence.

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