Cornelius Sullivan at the geographic South Pole, 1996
USC Vice Provost for Research Cornelius (Neal) W. Sullivan holds an American flag at the geographic South Pole, January 1996.; The ice sheet is over 8,000 feet thick at the South Pole. Since the ice shifts along the underlying ground an average of thirty feet per year the marker that identifies the...
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ftdatacite:10.25549/exbt-m72 2023-05-15T16:40:39+02:00 Cornelius Sullivan at the geographic South Pole, 1996 Unknown 2012 https://dx.doi.org/10.25549/exbt-m72 https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF11K9CH9 en eng University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL) Sullivan, Cornelius W. Dataset dataset 2012 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25549/exbt-m72 2022-03-10T12:05:41Z USC Vice Provost for Research Cornelius (Neal) W. Sullivan holds an American flag at the geographic South Pole, January 1996.; The ice sheet is over 8,000 feet thick at the South Pole. Since the ice shifts along the underlying ground an average of thirty feet per year the marker that identifies the pole's exact location is reestablished annually. Situated near the South Pole Station is a barber pole topped by a chrome ball that acts as a permanent ceremonial marker. Americans have been living here since 1956. The lack of water vapor in the air makes the skies nearly transparent, an ideal setting for astronomical research. Dataset Ice Sheet South pole DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) South Pole Sullivan ENVELOPE(-63.817,-63.817,-69.650,-69.650) |
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USC Vice Provost for Research Cornelius (Neal) W. Sullivan holds an American flag at the geographic South Pole, January 1996.; The ice sheet is over 8,000 feet thick at the South Pole. Since the ice shifts along the underlying ground an average of thirty feet per year the marker that identifies the pole's exact location is reestablished annually. Situated near the South Pole Station is a barber pole topped by a chrome ball that acts as a permanent ceremonial marker. Americans have been living here since 1956. The lack of water vapor in the air makes the skies nearly transparent, an ideal setting for astronomical research. |
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