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14-12-2000
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Like a Swiss Clockwork
On Antarctic Expeditions there is one thing you can be sure of:
The Argos transmitters go like a Swiss clockwork. Experienced Antarctic travellers have never heard of the orange boxes - the size of a small lunch-box - ever breaking down. So long as the battery is charged they send date, time, position, temperature and 16 prearranged codes, so that the travellers can send the surrounding world the essential news.
For five days Kristian and Gregers have been unable to get the supplementary SMS messages through by the means of their Magellan GSC 100, so the details of their situation are scarce, accordingly exclusively based on their brief signals from the Argos transmitters, which are turned on in the evening and turned off the next morning.
This night's signals tell briefly that yesterday the going was "heavy" and the weather "fine", and that after a day's march of ab. 21,5 km they had reached the position 84.144S, hereby covering a total of 460,5 km since the start on Nov. the 19th.
As the crow flies there are ab. 1111 km from the starting point at Hercules inlet, leaving a further 650,5 km to walk before the reach the South Pole. Including divers "turns" on the route they will reach a total of 1200 km before reaching the Pole.
Kristian and Gregers are at the moment in a very stable period, mistakably comparable to the aforesaid clockwork, for during the latest 11 days the have walked constantly between 21,5 and 24,6 km a day. This stability promises well for the rest of the tour, corresponding to an additional 26-28 day's walk.
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12-02-2001
THE DANISH SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION ON DR TV
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12-02-2001
LECTURE TOUR AND PUBLICATION OF BOOK ON THE EXPEDITION
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21-01-2001
THE RETURN JOURNEY HAS STARTED
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20-01-2001
THE WORLD'S LEAST HOSPITABLE PLACE?
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17-01-2001
ASKING FOR FINE WEATHER IN THREE LOCATIONS
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17-01-2001
NEW PHOTOS FROM THE SOUTH POLE ON THE WEBSITE
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13-01-2001
DANISH SOUTH POLE EXP. HAS REACHED THEIR GOAL
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12-01-2001
ANTARCTIC WEATHER CONDUCTING THE FINAL
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11-01-2001
A GOOD DAY WITH 31 DEGREES CELSIUS BELOW ZERO
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07-01-2001
SUPREME DANISH ACHIEVEMENT IN THE ANTARCTICA
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03-01-2001
CRITICAL LOSS OF DOWN JACKET AND EQUIPMENT
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31-12-2000
CELEBRATING NEW YEAR'S DAY BY RESTING
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31-12-2000
FORCED TO A DETOUR ROUND AREA WITH DEEP CREVASSES
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27-12-2000
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS ABOVE THE 86TH LATITUDE
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23-12-2000
CURRY CHICKEN AND BISCUIT CAKE FOR CHRISTMAS
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20-12-2000
A LITTLE DEJECTION, MINOR INJURIES AND SOUR SOCKS
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18-12-2000
NO MAIL FOR EIGHT DAYS
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14-12-2000
LIKE A SWISS CLOCKWORK
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