The crossing of Antarctica [Book Review]

Motorised over-snow transport is commonplace today in Antarctica, especially in the big US base at McMurdo with hundreds of winterised US trucks, tractors, 4x4s, SUVs and vans in use today. In the earliest days the explorers relied on dogs, horses and ponies for transport, with some trying their hand with primitive motor tractors. But in the early 1960s VW Australasia claimed to have sent 'the first production car' to the frozen continent.