Beside it being significantly colder at Pole than it is at McMurdo and the base being so much smaller (a summer population of 150 here as opposed to 1,000 there), one of the major differences between being at Pole versus McMurdo is that here it is flat, flat, flat--so different from the lovely mountainous setting of McMurdo. It has surprised me, though, that I find the flatlands of South Pole equally lovely. Doc Will (the station medical doctor ) said as he gazed out the window from the galley one day: "You can see forever...but there's nothing to see." That might kind of be true, but I really never get tired of gazing out the windows and remembering where I am and how completely amazing that is.
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