The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service US building highway to the South Pole 13:52 23 January 03 NewScientist.com news service American engineers in the Antarctic have begun work on a highway from the giant US coastal base at McMurdo Sound to the South Pole - a distance of 1600 kilometres. In the next few weeks the ice road should have crossed the wide expanse of the Ross ice shelf, which permanently covers the ocean, and be approaching the Transantarctic Mountains. The mountains mark the halfway point to the Pole. The road is expected to reach the US Scott-Amundsen...
