201 Days of Antarctic Adventure Actually Looks Like a Lot of Fun

This swell timelapse shows the Russian scientific vesselAkademik Fedorovon its 201 - day trip-up to Antarctica . 45,000 nautical mi of ocean and methamphetamine may sound dull , but it look like a raft of fun . They even built an intact carpenter’s plane !

The aircraft was stored in piece inside the ship and they had to work up it to replace the crew at the Russian research station Vostok , which is in the middle of Antarctica at the Pole of Cold , the point with he low temperature in the major planet ( -89.2 ° C or −128.6 ° F ) . It ’s located about 1,300 km from the Geographic South Pole . [ Akademik Fedorov’sviaDRB ]

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