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Show THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 1175 PAGE 12 SAUNA IN SOUTH POLE THE Admiral Byrd Never Dreamed 0 This Even in their wildest dreams, early polar explorers never would have ima- Hard-workin- scientists g and support personnel billeted there in recent years coped with leaking ceilings and sagging walls. We had to use a drum just to collect the snow melt in the mess hall," recalls an Antarctic veteran. ll gined carpeting, computers, and a sauna at the bottom of the world while outside the thermometer is a frigid 90 degrees below zero. Other amenities also at the United States' new Amundsen Scott South Pole Station include a small gymnasium, a movie theater, and a library. The biggest luxury will be enough space to give small private rooms to the 18 people who will spend nine isolated months at the facility," says a National Science Foundation spokesman. wall-to-wa- THE OLD station grew from prefabricated aluminum-plywood buildings linked d by burlap and chicken wire tunnels. Many of the men who spent the winter night long at the Pole reported later that things like leaky roofs did not bother them so much as a gnawing desire to be alone. Crowded into cramped quarters, seeing the same faces week after week, they longed for solitude. Mr. Antarctica, the late Dr. Paul A. Siple, first scientific leader at the original facility, recalled that each night in the lonely hour before sleep came he concentrated on the world outside as a relief. All day long there were other people. Then bedtime came and you were absolutely alone. It was like pulling down a window shade separ -- hardships the early Antarc wid THE EXPLORER'S tic explorers took for granted, says Mrs. Siple. I dined on steak and lobster at a VIP meal at the ow, Mrs. Ruth Siple, now a National Geographic employe, recently went to the ating the two parts of the day," he wrote. Pole, but to Antarctica as a Eagle Scout with Admiral Byrd's party in 1928, the winter meat supply consisted of the seals they managed to trap and kill. Conditions forced the Byrd party to go for weeks without a bath or change of clothes. They called themselves the Knights of the Gray Under- wear. Men had been making sacrifices to reach the South Pole long before the Byrd snow-covere- expedition. six-mon- th HEART OF the base is a geodesic dome that encloses three two-stor- y buildings. Other facilities are housed under sections of a corrugated steel arch that extends, with its connecting links, more than 800 feet. Funded by NSF and the United States Navy, the new buildings replace a nearby station built in 1956 and now being crushed under 40 feet of ice and snow, the National Geographic Society says. Paul first when went ERNEST H. Shackleton toiled to within 111 miles of the magic point in 1909 until, as he wrote in National there was no Geographic, food remaining . . . The entire party was prostrated by dysentery. At me point Shackletons men were pinned down by a fierce blizzard, and his diary reported: Every now and then (Hie of our partys feet go, and the unfortunate begNATIONAL 80ENCE FOUNDATION gar has to take his leg out of of corrugated steel on a flat snow plain the sleeping bag and have his ALUMINUM BUBBLE rises above a Amundsen-Scot- t South Pole frozen foot nursed into life extending for hundreds of miles. Center of the United States' new Station, the geodesic dome, measuring 164 feet in diameter and 52 feet high, houses three again by placing it inside the r, with its links, extends more than 800 shirt, against the skin of his diameter building. The almost equally unfortunate feet. half-cylind- two-sto- half-cylinde- 46-fo- ot ry supply cache Scott penciled We are his last entry: the end getting weaker cannot be far. Months later his body was found. Had we lived, his diary read, I should have had a tale to tell of hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. neighbor. mi IN race A desperate ... began. Britain's Robert Falcon Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen, conqueror of the Northwest Passage, both headed for Antarctica. One of the articles Amundsen took along was a tooth extractor, and it proved for one man invaluable, had a tooth which became so bad that it was absolutely essential that it should be pulled out, and this could hardly have been done without a proper instrument. Subsisting on a diet of pemmican, biscuits, chocolate, powdered milk, and dog . a local nsidaat aUa ta deveta tiaia far ssRiag. Rstirad ar saaikatirsd farwsr ar raachar wakaaw. Da iavastaMBt laeaatary ky you kat aiust kava tkod la don aar iawatoqr of win far if caste awr pick Protected GREAT GOD! he wrote in his diary. 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