Previous Expeditions

2015 Lake Untersee

December 1, 2015

2015 Lake Untersee

Lake Untersee is a large ice covered lake in East Antarctica. The expedition started from the ice-way at Novo in Queen Maud Land with two trucks and four team members. Goals for the expedition where to explore the route, find appropriate camping grounds at Unterssee and provide assistance to the scientific expedition already at the lake…

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2015 – Antarctica Brazilian Research

September 10, 2015

2015 – Antarctica Brazilian Research

“Weather and perfect snow allowed fast forward, sometimes more than 50 km per hour in some parts up to 70 km per hour. Undoubtedly, the transportation with these vehicles is revolutionizing the polar logistics!” Dr. Jefferson Simoes Time: January 5th to 17th 2015 Route: Union Glacier – Criosfera 1 – Criosfera 2 – Union Glacier Participants:…

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2013 – Antarctica White Ice Project

December 13, 2013

2013 – Antarctica White Ice Project

White Ice Cycle – Antarctica 2013 Maria Leijerstam approached Arctic Trucks in November 2012, planning to cycle solo to the South Pole from either Hercules inlet or Ross Ice shelf. Cycling on snow can be a huge challenge, to cover extensive distances on a bike cycle in Antarctica looked impossible. Despite a few attempts no…

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2013 – Antarctica Willis Resilience

December 3, 2013

2013 – Antarctica Willis Resilience

The Willis Resilience Expedition – Antarctica 2013 In this expedition Willis, the global risk adviser, insurance and reinsurance broker, teamed up with the teenage explorer and climate campaigner Parker Liautaud to attempt a World Record. The purpose of the South Pole speed expedition was to help explore the impact of climate change on the planet….

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2013 – Antarctica E7 Expedition

November 27, 2013

2013 – Antarctica E7 Expedition

The goal of The Expeditions 7 team was being the first expedition ever to drive through all the 7 continents. For this mission they used Toyota vehicles in all the 7 parts of the expedition. When they arrived in Antarctica they had already completed 5 legs of this ambitious journey. The Expedition 7 team of…

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2013 – Walking With the Wounded

November 5, 2013

2013  – Walking With the Wounded

Walking With The Wounded – Antarctica 2013 Walking with the Wounded is a UK based charity which funds both the retraining and re-education of wounded servicemen and women, aiming to help them find long term employment after they have left the Armed Forces. WWTW hopes to inspire other injured soldiers and raise funds for their support….

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2011 – KNGS

December 4, 2011

2011 – KNGS

KNGS – Independence expedition Antarctica 2011 In 2010 an expedition from the Kazakhstan National Geographical Society (KNGS) team set a Guinness world record for the fastest overland transverse, driving from Novo to the South Pole, 2308 km in 108 hours in two AT44 Expedition Vehicles. On the way back the team set another unofficial record…

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2011 – Antarctica Double Traverse

November 22, 2011

2011 – Antarctica Double Traverse

On the 22nd of November 2011, two AT44 and two AT44 6×6 set off from the ice self below Novo airbase. There were several objectives and goals for the expedition. The first was as a luxury ski support, skiing from 88 degrees to the South Pole. The team consisted of two AT Drivers/Mechanics/Paramedics, the EWR organizer…

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2011 – Antarctica Fuel Depot

November 20, 2011

2011 – Antarctica Fuel Depot

ALCI – setting up a fuel depot on the Antarctica high plateau – 2011 The purpose of this expedition was to help ALCI establish a massive fuel depot to support flights and vehicles on their way from Novo to South Pole. The fuel depot is located 1500km from Novo airport on top of the plateau. Two…

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2011 – Antarctica EWR Ski Race – “Cold Sweat”

November 11, 2011

2011 – Antarctica EWR Ski Race – “Cold Sweat”

South Pole Anniversary Race On the 14th of December 1911 Roald Amundsen and his Norwegian team were the first people to reach the South Pole. Shortly after on the 17th of January 1912, Scott and his teammates arrived at South Pole after a very difficult journey only to find Amundsen had beaten them to it….

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2010 – Antarctica Ski Race

December 10, 2010

2010 – Antarctica Ski Race

The third expedition of the season 2010-2011 was made to assist a ski race to the South Pole, similar to the Amundsen Omega 3 project but instead of the BBC filming, it was the Austrian and German TV filming a race between, Austrian and German ski team. This expedition took place from December 10th to…

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2010 – Antarctica KNGS

December 4, 2010

2010 – Antarctica KNGS

The second expedition of the 2010-11 season was for the Kazakhstan National Geographic Society, KNGS. It was organized by KNGS and The Antarctica Company (TAC). KNGS had already bought two AT44 Hilux from Arctic Trucks and planned an expedition South Pole the following season on the 100 year anniversary of Amundsen and later Scott arriving…

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2010 – Antarctica NCAOR

November 13, 2010

2010 – Antarctica NCAOR

The first expedition of the 2010-11 season was for the Indian National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR). The plan was to leave the Indian Antarctica station, Matri on the 12th November but got delayed by a day when the AT team was called in to assist the rescuing a person that had fallen into a…

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2010 – Antarctica Fuel Depot

October 20, 2010

2010 – Antarctica Fuel Depot

2010 – Top Gear Eyjafjallajökull

April 5, 2010

2010 – Top Gear Eyjafjallajökull

March 24th of 2010, the Icelandic Metro office requested Arctic Trucks services to provide support to go to Eyjafjallajökull to fix measuring equipment located around the glacier, but it had started erupting. In the beginning the eruption was fairly contained and we notified Top Gear that there might be an interesting opportunity for them to…

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2009 – Antarctica Fuel Drop

November 2, 2009

2009 – Antarctica Fuel Drop

This project had two main aims, first to find a safe route onto the plateau, and secondly to go 1500 km into the plateau and prepare to receive a fuel paradrop at 83:40 degrees. Despite careful studies, information from pilots and the experience from the expedition the previous season, the team had a few close…

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2008 – Antarctica Amundsen Omega Pole Race

November 30, 2008

2008 – Antarctica Amundsen Omega Pole Race

To follow up the North Pole Challenge, Arctic Trucks took on an extremely challenging expedition to providing support for a ski race documented by the BBC. The program was called “On thin ice”,  starring Ben Fogel and James Cracknell, and the goal was to cover a ski race between 7 teams, the last six and…

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2007 – Magnetic North Pole

April 22, 2007

2007 – Magnetic North Pole

Through sales to militaries, specialized vehicles from us had been used in more countries around the world than ever by 2007. On the other hand, we had not participated in any international event for a number of years when Toyota GB contacted us and asked if we could build a Toyota Hilux to drive to the magnetic…

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2000 – Dubai

January 27, 2000

2000 – Dubai

Arctic Trucks participated in the Millennium Desert Drive in Dubai to further test the AT solutions. The aim was to confirm that a specially modified 4×4 vehicle that had proven its worth in the Arctic and Antarctica could also perform in the hot desert. One of the vehicles that got used in Antarctica and that…

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1999 – Greenland

May 14, 1999

1999 – Greenland

Greenland is right next us in Iceland, huge in comparison and was a fairly unchartered territory when Arctic Trucks was approached by Lasse Rungholm from Denmark to drive across, in memorial of Fridtjof Nansen crossing of Greenland. Backed up by KNI AS Greenland, we began by assembling a team, analyzing the Greenland glacier, finding the…

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1997 – Antarctica

February 7, 1997

1997 – Antarctica

For vehicles to travel on glaciers and deep snow, belt had really traditionally been the only option. In Iceland we had made radical changes to this common practice and developed our cars to do many of the same things with much greater efficiency in many conditions. Swedish scientists had experienced our vehicles working on Icelandic…

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