Hello from McMurdo Station, Antarctica

[Mike_Oettle]

Hi, Craig — I salute your spirit of enterprise! You will have to post pictures of your parachute kilt when it is made.
And when you get back to civilisation, you will qualify to purchase an Antarctic kilt!
I see that McMurdo Station is on the far side of Antarctica from my part of the world — if I were to fly there direct, I would have to miss the South Pole slightly on the Australian side.
The city where I live, Port Elizabeth, shares with Cape Town the distinction of being the southernmost in Africa — southernmost city, that is.
And about halfway between there is a small cathedral town called George (well, not only is it still a town, but it has the smallest cathedral in the Southern Hemisphere).
There are places further south, but not substantial settlements. The southernmost tip of Africa is at Cape Agulhas — the name is Portuguese for needles, because compass needles go crazy round there, for some reason.
The southernmost piece of South Africa, however, is in the Sub-Antarctic, two islands known as the Prince Edward Island group. One is Prince Edward, the other Marion. South Africa has a weather station on Marion, and also one on the Antarctic rock in Queen Maud Land.
Ironically, the islands are included (for administrative purposes) in the Pretoria magisterial district. So the southernmost district of South Africa is headquartered in its northern half.
We also have a weather station on British territory, on Gough Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha group.
In theory we pay one peppercorn rent a year to Britain for the base area, but I have heard talk that the current regime has been forgetting to pay!
Your New Zealand neighbours use stamps inscribed Ross Dependency, but I imagine you fellows from the US just use US postage stamps.
Regards,
Mike

[cavscout]

Welcome to the neighborhood I would have expected your picture to show you inverted. There may be issues with keeping the kilt in place down there. :mrgreen:

Where are you from originally?