Thread: Antarctica and Tractors

The story of the Snow Cruiser

The snowless journey of the Snow Cruiser


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Are you sure those Citroens werent there to help Byrd find the hidden Nazi UFO's??

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Are you sure those Citroens werent there to help Byrd find the hidden Nazi UFO's??

The cloud above the portal was obscuring the ice doors.

The interwebthingy is great for these things--
The Nazis, Admiral Byrd and The Secret Land, page 1

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Are you sure those Citroens werent there to help Byrd find the hidden Nazi UFO's??

My infomation came from Engineer, explorer, Entrepreneur . Andre' Citroe'n By John Reynolds. An excelent book & Citroe'n was a man of vision but life was always a gamble. He was the first manufacture to advertise , to set up dealerships & service . In those days when you bought a motor vehicle you ordered it from the factory & the vehicle went back to the factory for rebuilds. When he was a boy he watched the Eiffel Tower being built from his bedroom window & visioned seeing his name in lihgts on the tower & between 1925 & 1934 the tower was illuminated with the word Citroenon all 4 sides & could be seen for 60 miles. The sign & the expeditions were all part of advertising.

Oh Pedro! Have you been reading too many Mandrake comics again?
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Hmm! There used to be Mandrake strips in the Womens Weekly, about the time a open copy would cover the whole of the table top.
Being a younger member of a well off farming family at that time, My Granny had a subscription to the magazine, back then I think it would still have been a weekly rag, so I would always keep up with the latest episodes of Mandrake the Magician with his lady friend Narda.

Ref; Comics Down Under: Mandrake Casts His Spell




Yes, there was once a story along the lines of a super race living in a special place within the polar wastes and they used to have flying saucers as their mode of transport.

The driver was fine. Not a true crevasse, but a meltwater channel under the ice.


Priscilla and a Hag - en route from Wilkins runway to Casey station. A lot less fun to ride in than they look.


Friday Drinks in the workshop. Who needs an esky?


Hag enroute to Wilkins. The drums are every 5kms as pre GPS they used weather radar to find the way. Sign courtesy of Salamanca Markets with a lot of reinforcing. Last I heard it was still there, credit to the craftsmen that put it there.

Russian Buran. Untouched for over 20 years. As was their lunch in the hut. Bread and meat left in situ. A very very odd feeling - far better summed up by the eloquent journo we took there. The past is frozen in time in the land of ice and snow



And the relics


And a thousand mile west - out the back of Mawson, near Rumdoodle. Yes it's as slippery as it looks. And you can pirouette quite gracefully. Apparently.