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Thursday, August 22, 2002

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2207259.stm

Internet to reach South Pole
David Whitehouse, BBC News Online science editor

The internet is coming to the South Pole following a decision to lay a fibre-optic cable nearly two thousand kilometres across the polar ice. It will be one of the most dramatic and challenging engineering tasks ever carried out in Antarctica. It will take years to design and construct, but when finished it will revolutionise communications with the South Pole....

 


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