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Transport in Antarctica: Ice Pier, 109th Airlift Wing, Tourism in Antarctica, McMurdo-South Pole Highway

Transport in Antarctica: Ice Pier, 109th Airlift Wing, Tourism in Antarctica, McMurdo-South Pole Highway

          
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Chapters: Ice Pier, 109th Airlift Wing, Tourism in Antarctica, Mcmurdo-South Pole Highway. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: An ice pier is a man-made structure used to assist the unloading of ships in Antarctica. It is constructed by pumping seawater into a contained area and allowing the water to freeze. By repeating this procedure several times, additional layers are built up. The final structure is many meters in thickness, and strong enough to support container trucks. Operation Deep Freeze personnel constructed the first floating ice pier at Antarcticas southernmost sea port at McMurdo Station in 1973. Ice piers have been in use each summer season since, at McMurdos natural harbor at Winter Quarters Bay located at . The harbor is positioned on the southern tip of Ross Island. Historically, two supply ships, a freighter and a tanker, arrive at the ice pier each summer, after an icebreaker opens a ship channel through pack ice. The ice piers key function is to provide a platform for freight trucks to come alongside a supply ship to receive or offload cargo. Steel cables attached to shoreline hold the dock in a fixed position. Port officials distribute freight arriving at the dock to McMurdo Station, nearby Scott Base, and to field camps as far away as the South Pole. Imports include virtually any materials needed to support personnel living and working in Antarctica. Exports range from items such as scientific ice core samples and human waste collected from field camps to broken equipment and recyclables for return to the United States for processing. Ice piers typically have a lifespan of three to five years. Once an ice pier is no longer usable, icebreakers tow the dock to sea to be cast adrift. Annual re-supply ships discharging cargo onto a fl...http: //booksllc.net/?id=930789


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156875711
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 63 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156875714
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 229 mm

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