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Ocean, Coast, Inner Coast..... Is this really the question? — Hannah McKeand - Polar Guide

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There has been a massive amount of debate over the last year about how we talk about Antarctic expeditions, how we categorise them and how we judge their merit. A lot of the debate comes down to the terminology that we use to describe starting points. In the early days of polar exploration it was a moot point, the only way to access the frozen continent was to sail a ship there and climb on. Today, with only a few very unusual exceptions, expeditioners access the continent via air. The location of the camps and runways that we arrive at has driven the modern expedition age to a selection of notional start points that we have validated by highlighting various select geographic facts about them. For the past 20 years the classic starting point for modern polar expeditions has been Hercules Inlet. Hercules, for most of those years, has been broadly described as a ‘coast to Pole’ route, by myself included. The argument for this is that the inlet is located on the technical geographic coast

Ocean, Coast, Inner Coast..... Is this really the question? Sep 5 Written By Hannah McKeand There has been a massive amount of debate over the last year about how we talk about Antarctic expeditions, how we categorise them and how we judge their merit. A lot of the debate comes down to the terminology that we use to describe starting points. In the early days of polar exploration it was a moot point, the only way to access the frozen continent was to sail a ship there and climb on. Today, with only a few very unusual exceptions, expeditioners access the continent via air. The location of the c

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