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Aurora Australis |
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.For a bit of fun try this Paint your own Hagglund click here Hagglund BV206 Colour Manipulator This FLASH program allows you to change the colour of one of our vehicles to help you choose your colour of choice.
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| Proof
that Santa and his reindeers live at the South Pole |
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Myself
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Work Vehicles
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Postmasters
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Huskies are no longer used in the Antarctic
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| Douglas Mawson used dog-sledges in his 1911-14 expedition. Australian sledge dogs have been working in Antarctica since 1954. They provided the safest means of transport over sea ice and heavily crevassed terrain. The dogs became an integral part of station life, providing companionship and affection to many expeditioners. Australia was the last of the Antarctic countries to remove working dogs from their base at Mawson in 1992. Without the husky teams Antarctica would not have been explored to the degree that it has now with all of the successful early explorations employing dog teams as a means of transport. Why did the huskies have to go? The Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty on Environmental Protection (the Madrid Protocol) signed in 1991, designates Antarctica as a natural reserve. The Madrid protocol states 1. No species of animal or plant not native to the Antarctic Treaty area shall be introduced onto land or ice shelves, or into water in the Antarctic Treaty area except in accordance with a permit. 2. Dogs shall not be introduced
onto land or ice shelves and dogs currently in those areas shall
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