Polar Sidekicks Earn a Place on the Map ~a United States Air Force colonel’s inspired campaign and in celebration of the Amundsen-Scott achievements(
The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. It was led by Robert Falcon Scott )~ Now navigation waypoints (as aircraft resume supply runs in what passes for springtime after the bitter austral winter, aeronautical maps of the primary route used by all air traffic between New Zealand and McMurdo Station in Antarctica) will bear names of 11 of Amundsen’s sledge dogs and Scott’s ponies on this highway in the sky honor, among others, Helge, Mylius and Uroa (Greenland dogs of Amundsen’s) and Jimmy Pigg, Bones and Nobby (Scott’s Manchurian and Siberian ponies). Several of the animals’ names have been modified to conform to the standard five-letter format for the waypoints, where at intervals of a few hundred miles pilots must report by radio to air traffic controllers their time of arrival, position and weather conditions http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/science/28polar.html?_r=1
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 