Resin Lenin presides over Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility
In December 1958, a Soviet expedition reached Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility, the point on the continent farthest from any coastline: 1,400 kilometers inland and 3,700 meters up in the coldest region on Earth. The year-round average temperature there is minus 58 degrees centigrade. The team, led by polar scientist Y…
