Many people have asked me why such a delay. That is one on the reasons I have fallen in love with the place. McMurdo Sound is the main US research station in Antarctica. Actually South Pole, the real bottom of the world, is still about another 1360 km south of here. Use the miles and kilometer from NZ to set up a conversion factor and figure it out.
Metric conversions are important.
Just about three weeks ago a spacecraft set to land on Mars was destroyed because, someone forgot to change metric to English measure or vice versa in one of his calculation, this lead directly to the destruction of a multimillion dollar spacecraft plus the shattering of many people's dreams. Oh well, maybe that old science teacher new what he was talking about. In fact, before you deploy for the Ice you must give them an idea of all your sizes, and then the day you arrive in Christchurch, before you board the LC130 for McTown, you must try on all clothing to make sure it fits. No Wal-Mart's here. Till my next journal have a great day.