The relatively unknown yet memorable Antarctic Snow Cruiser is a vehicle designed especially for the purpose of exploring Antarctica. Built between 1937 and 1939, it was commissioned specially for one ...

Everything about the name "Antarctic Snow Cruiser" fires up my imagination. This long-forgotten behemoth was so ahead of its time and so doomed for failure that I was surprised to find that, somehow, ...

THE Engineer of May 3 gives an illustrated description of the remarkable vehicle which has been constructed for use by the American Antarctic Expedition which sailed from Boston, Mass., on November 15 ...

Built for a groundbreaking Antarctic mission, the Snow Cruiser was meant to be a symbol of American innovation. Instead, it ...

For me, it would probably be Antarctic Snow Cruiser, not just because it was a house on wheels meant to traverse the Antarctic, but it looks so goofy and cute and so obviously like something ...

If you were planning to travel hundreds of miles across Antarctic snow and ice, you'd probably be looking to captain something like an e-treaded polar snow ferry or concept-grade propeller cruiser, ...

It was meant to be the ultimate Arctic explorer — 55 feet long, 37 tons of steel, and unstoppable across the ice. But when the Antarctic Snow Cruiser finally touched the frozen continent, it sank into ...

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The Porsche 356 is definitely not a vehicle that comes to mind when you think of Antarctica, but with a couple of modifications, anything is possible. As part of the “Project 356 World Rally” ...

vol. 1. Glaciological studies at Wilkes Station, Budd Coast, Antarctica / Richard Leo Cameron -- Glaciological studies in West Antarctica, 1960-1962 / Hiromu Shimizu -- Horizontal strain and absolute ...

Green snow algae are some of Antarctica’s smallest living organisms, delicate enough to examine by microscope. But when they grow together in clumps, they’re visible from space—a rich, green stain on ...

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Antarctic explorer, seems to thrive on trouble, and if he got off on an expedition without something going wrong he might regard it as an ill omen. This month the ...