Day Trip To Antarctica: Airline Flies There
Though the passengers don't notice, the compass needle wobbles as the plane flies over the Magnetic South Pole
. They are traveling over Antarctica on a one-day tour.Tourists can view sea ice thousands of meters below them that looks like the crests of ocean waves formed by winds that blast in towards the coast. Even this high above the land they can watch the wind sending ribbons of snow toward the sea, making it look as if plumes of steam instead of snow are sweeping across the glacier's frozen white waves.
Traveling over 2,030 kilometers to reach the South Magnetic Pole in 1909, took the first explorers 134 days. They meticulously trod through the deadly ice.
It only took this flight four hours to reach the Magnetic South Pole from,. Then the passengers continued to view the frontier of Antarctica from the air.
The Magnetic South Pole is the point at which several magnetic force lines collide. These forces greatly affect compasses as airplanes fly over Antarctica.
Staying on course is easy for the jet because it has satellite guidance, as well as a gyroscope. About 2,500 kilometers away from the jet's present location, is the famous geographic South Pole that drew those first adventurers of the early 1900s.
Tourists who take this flight are repeating the feat of a well-known American aviator who was the first to fly over both North and South Poles back in the 1920s, bragging about being a man who had fulfilled his destiny while sitting down.
The Antarctic winds blast past the airplane. Aboard the plane, all is relaxed, as some of the tourists joke and sip wine, sitting comfortably warm in their shorts and t-shirts.
Expect a jubilant atmosphere inside the plane's cabin from the minute you take off, through to the entire time that you and your fellow explorers view the Antarctic to when you get back and touchdown safely. Sightseers of all ages now traipse about the plane, trying to find the best place to see the icebergs.
As they come closer they can see a jigsaw puzzle made up of jagged geometrical shaped icebergs as they near the coast of Antarctic, as if someone randomly dropped white mirror shards on to a blue-black background that is the sea.
The passengers are gracious about sharing windows so everyone can snap pictures, shoot videos, or just catch a glimpse of the breathtaking view as the glaciers gracefully and slowly escape into the sea. After this, they were inspired by the views the Trans Antarctic Mountains offered, as well as the splendor of the starkly white ice caps and their blue highlights.
These new and exciting day trips to the Antarctic are a revival of an old flight pattern that used to bring two major airlines over the dark and frozen continent. Not only can the passengers delight in the natural wonders of Antarctica like the mountains, glaciers, coast and icebergs, but they can also see man's influence.
They fly over an abandoned French research facility. The continent is reclaiming it after it was severely damaged by a tidal wave. The South Magnetic Pole, whose first visitors were geologists, sits relatively close to this former base.
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