In 1939, a large, bound assessment vehicle called the Snow Cruiser was driven away from the South Pole. The "Penguin," as it was sometimes known, was out to travel 5,000 miles over a frigid landscape while boarding and sustaining a group of five people, but it immediately became stranded after arriving in Antarctica and eventually abandoned ship. It was quickly located in 1958 after being missing for more than 60 years under two to three feet of snow and ice.
Apart from two dedicated scientists who have discovered some truly credible evidence concerning its final resting place, nobody knows where it is. Ted Scambos and Clarence Novak originally shared their discoveries in an educational paper back in 2005, but they were to The Drive after our most recent feature on the Snow Cruiser to discuss what they had learned.
Despite the fact that the study progresses towards an unforgiving pursuit region while considering notable companions and oceanic data, it also delicately reveals the whereabouts of many relics from the Snow Cruiser's period of Antarctic evaluation.
The Snow Cruiser, built in about 11 weeks during the spring of 1939 at a cost of $150,000, was intended to provide a permanent, adaptable base in Antarctica. Thomas Poulter, who had previously been caught at an incredibly set up camp not far from the South Pole on another project, basically kicked the can straight up. He wasn't fully adamant about creating one since he thought that a flexible assessment community would be essentially more secure and even more significant. Approximately 56 feet long and 16 feet high, it is also a very large one.
The equipment was first observed in 1946 as it was gradually coated in snow and ice from a gathering, and it was again observed in 1958 after a gathering discovered the most crucial locations of its sign shafts and descended to it with a work vehicle. At any rate, the Snow Cruiser disappeared forever after that...................
Unfortunately, digging alone won't get you the Snow Cruiser today. Little America III was discovered atop an ice shelf that had already broken and calved three enormous cold masses, one of which carried notable flotsam and jetsam from the camp seen by sailors on the USS Edisto in the Ross Ocean in 1963.
According to the paper, this enormous chunk of ice drifted about 18 kilometres from the coast, but Scambos and Novak acknowledge it's unlikely the Snow Cruiser was on it at the time it was discovered, noting that "the general spot of the plane shades, shafts, and Snow Cruiser [based on a helper of the area made in 1941] makes it almost 100% sure that the Snow Cruiser had restricted from the Edisto berg at some previous time."
The Snow Cruiser had either just detached from the Edisto berg before, or it was on a very real patch of ice in the Straight of Whales. The Snow Cruiser would have likely drifted north or west along the bank of the river from that point.
All of this adds up to the Snow Cruiser having been saved from being thrown into the sea in 1962 by a chunk of ice along the Ross Ice Rack. In any event, ice is what the Ross ice rack is. The "shore" is consistently producing. In any event, we really have satellite images of this front from 1962, and it's safe to say that's how Scambos and Novak connected the Snow Cruiser's typical locations to those images.
As it whips down the edge of the rack, the district may be seen to follow the path that a chunk of ice could travel. Scambos and Novak believe that many relics from the region, including the Snow Cruiser, are dispersed across the marine base.👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊
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