January 14, 2013
Today's trivia question comes from way down in Antarctica ... West Antarctica, to be exact.
The Pine Island Glacier is about as far away from everything as it could possibly be. We know most of what we know about the massive ice sheet through fly-overs. It covers approximately 68,000 square miles and is 160 miles in length. The nearest continually occupied research station is over 800 miles away. Not exactly the type of place you'd visit on a whim.