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This is not the Superdome in New Orleans. Bono and U2 did not perform here; the Superbowl was not held here. This is its distant cousin, the dome at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Leah Webster, a pen pal of our school's from the USAP, sends us this extraordinary photo. The sun is not shining presently at the Pole, but when it was it would always sit low in the sky. As you can see, everything is covered with ice and snow. The snow is probably very old as Antarctica is basically a frozen desert, and it snows infrequently ... but it never melts.You can see why the electricians, like our pen pal John Miller, are so important as are the people responsible for the food supply, like Leah. It is not merely a matter of being comfortable, people's lives depend on these things and the people who work with these things. With the completion of the Elevated Station, seen in other photos on this blog, the dome is now a supply base; no one lives there now.
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The inside of the dome is used to store food supplies and other necessities that can remain frozen. Thanks, Leah, for another great photo. You have opened our students' eyes to a whole new world! -- Adrian
1 comment:
Adrian,
How wonderful for all of us who are not students of st. ent de Paul Learning Center to be able to learn so much about Antarctica by reading all your information about that strange but beautiful continent! The photos are so fabulous and your explanations are so educational,I find it an excellent opportunity to understand much about the lives of the people "on the ice".
Your comparisons of the two places, Antarctica and New Orleans, gives a great idea of what we have in common and so much of what is different.
Thanks for enriching our lives with this knowledge of Antarctica and some of the people living and working there, that maybe we never would have realized was happening.
Continued success!!
Joyce T. Byrne
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