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Pole-to-pole flights and touring Antarctica

The claim

“No one has flown pole to pole and back, and you can’t tour or overfly Antarctica.”

What is measured

Pole-to-pole circumnavigation is flown, GPS-tracked and record-ratified (One More Orbit, 2019, and others back to 1965), and Antarctica is overflown, flown into and toured by ~100,000 people a year. “Never happened” and “no access” are contradicted by the public record.

What would show this is wrong

evidence that the FAI/Guinness polar-circumnavigation records and the ongoing Antarctic flights and tours are fabricated, with no whistleblowers among the thousands of crew and passengers.

Sources

  1. One More Orbit — polar circumnavigation. A Gulfstream G650ER circled Earth via both poles in 46 h 40 m in July 2019, GPS-tracked and ratified by the FAI and Guinness; pole-to-pole flights da link
  2. Tourism in Antarctica. Sightseeing overflights from Australia since 1977, charter flights to the Peninsula and interior camps, South Pole flights, and 100,000+ visitors a year, regulated und link
  3. Air access to the South Pole, including winter medevacs. The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station at 90°S is staffed year-round and resupplied by ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules in summer. In 2001 link
  4. Antarctica is a mapped continent. Antarctica is Earth’s fifth-largest continent, about 14 million km² (roughly 40% larger than Europe), with a coastline of about 17,968 km, surrounded by the link
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