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82.798808°S, 55.927589°E
Polyus Nedostupnosti research station, Pole of Inaccessibility, Antarctica

photo by Sol

Ah, well, I recognize this photo. Two things about it:

1. The pole(s) of inaccessibility can be defined many ways. This one, with the caps, should be considered a proper name: the Pole of Inaccessibility Research Station or so. That statue is one of surely very few sizable busts of Lenin, outside a museum, in the southern hemisphere. It was placed by Soviets more than fifty years ago, and no one has taken the trouble to deface it. This is one of the coldest places in the world, and I imagine its worst structural threat is hundreds of years of wind-blown ice crystals wearing it down.

2. Because it is so extremely remote, there are probably very few photos online that were taken near it. However, if you paw around Antarctica on any large photo sharing service, you will find plenty of erroneously placed photos – as jokes, as lies, as curiosities, as odd forms of promotion. I imagine that in most of Antarctica, the nominally nearest photo is some kind of spam. This suggests to me that there’s a certain amount of filtering in Stochastic Planet. Just a guess.