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Title: Honouring the Antarctic Animals Post by: Bobbie Ireland on 03-Oct-10, 11:12:18 AM No, not the penguins. This time, it is all about the ponies and dogs that were essential in reaching the South Pole. Good piece. And something else for Jeff - without whom, I do not think I would be paying so much attention to this particular part of the world.
Late by almost a century, cartographic immortality is being accorded the dogs and ponies who bore much of the burden, and in most cases gave their all, in the 1911-12 race between the Norwegian Roald Amundsen and the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott to be the first to reach the South Pole... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/science/28polar.html?ref=science Title: Re: Honouring the Antarctic Animals Post by: MAK on 03-Oct-10, 11:47:12 AM Thank you for sharing that Bobbie. Those seals were very cute! ;D
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