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Postmarked December 30, 1925

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The second photograph is of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, Antarctica. IceCube is a particle detector that searches and records the interactions of neutrinos - very nearly massless sub-atomic particles.

While the Sun is directly above your head at the Tropic of Capricorn on 21 December 2012, it never gets any higher than 23.4393° at the South Pole, the Sun is always low on the horizon and a single day is six months long.

Theoretically Antarctica includes all Time Zones of the World since all lines of longitude converge at the South Pole.

In every day practise Antarctica time is based on one of following three times; territorial claims by individual countries using time of their own country; some countries use UTC/GMT, and others use the time zone of the town or city from which supplies are sent, such as those based at McMurdo Station and Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, who use New Zealand Time due to their supply base being from Christchurch, New Zealand. Read More »


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