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AP 15 images Created 17 May 2021

AP - Antartica - South Pole 
Description: The Trans-Antarctica dogsled expedition at the South Pole 1989
Details: Photos captured in Antarctica from 1989 

This is part of the AlpenImage Photography Archive, a vast image collection from around the world shot by Gordon Wiltsie. For more information about this gallery, or to browse the entire archive explore our interactive database at https://www.alpenimage.com/database
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  • With (the late) pioneering Antarctic pilot Giles Kershaw at the stick, a Cessna 185 ski plane takes off from a bare ice glacier at Patriot Hills in the Southern Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.
    AP 0212.jpg
  • Antarctica. Veteran Polar Pilot, Giles Kershaw, In Cessna 185.  2 Months After This Photo Was Taken In December, 1989, He Was Killed In A Gyrocopter Crash.
    AP 0223.jpg
  • A lone ski mountaineer stands atop the Patriot Hills in the southern Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.
    AP 0364.jpg
  • A hiker crosses a bare ice glacier below the Patriot Hills in the southern Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica.  This glacier, polished by katabatic winds, is the ongoing site of the first-ever wheeled aircraft landings on the continent.
    AP 0394.jpg
  • AP 0527.jpg
  • A solar parhelion (sun dog) hovers over sastrugi snow near the South Pole, Antarctica.
    AP 0536.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Twin Otter airplane shadow crosses vast polar icecap near South Pole, featureless except for wind-carved sastrugi.
    AP 0546.jpg
  • AP 0611.jpg
  • AP 0663.jpg
  • AP 0703.jpg
  • AP 0847.jpg
  • A snow cat drives towards the old dome at Amundsen Scott science base, run by the United States at the South Pole, Antarctica.  (Taken in 1989.  This has subsequently been replaced by more modern and efficient structures.)
    AP 0872.jpg
  • AP 0922.jpg
  • AP 0950.jpg
  • Gordon Wiltsie at the South Pole.
    AP 1031.jpg