Vast Antarctic Road

Author: Qiang Ying
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: At 72°56′30″ S latitude, 75°16′39″ E longitude, with an altitude of 2,036 meters in the Grove Glacier region, I accidentally fell flat on my face. Feeling frustrated, I looked up and saw a brown, loaf-shaped stone ahead—it was a meteorite! I became the 15th person in China to discover an Antarctic meteorite. The 280-gram treasure was named "Qiang Ying GRV021604." 147 passionate team members, over 120 days and nights, trekked more than 40,000 kilometers, braving wind and snow, overcoming countless difficulties beyond imagination, and completed 27 scientific research projects—this is the glorious achievement of the 19th Chinese Antarctic Expedition. Most of the team was seasick, with a few young members fainting for three days and nights, even vomiting after drinking a sip of water. Some team members couldn't take the seasickness anymore and wanted to jump into the sea. As a strong person, I felt as if I were thrown into a washing machine during this expedition, with a sense of near-death experience.