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pole of inaccessibility

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pole of inaccessibility [′pōl əv ‚in·ak‚ses·ə′bil·əd·ē]
(geography)


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And his longest walk covered 3,800 miles, the first surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean - from Alaska to Spitzbergen, Norway, by way of the Pole of Inaccessibility and the North Pole.
Dragging 260lb sledges, the team travelled more than 1,050 miles on foot or by kite ski to reach Antarctica's Pole of Inaccessibility ( the furthest point from any ocean ( on Friday, according to a statement on the expedition's website today.
In temperatures that dipped below -50C, they covered 1,000 miles to the Pole Of Inaccessibility - so called because it is further from the coast than any other point on the continent.
 
 
 
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