Now, that claim needs some explaining.

The Coast Guard does visit McMurdo, but until everything melts, they're not getting near South Pole station. (It's serviced by the NY Air National Guard these days.)

And outside of a tiny group of scientists, support personnel, and in the past few years construction workers building the new base, no one winters over at South Pole. The Three Hundred Degree club requires -100F outside, which outside of South Pole and Vostok in the winter, doesn't exist at other bases on the continent.

So, how on earth did you join it?? Or should I have had taken that claim with a grain of salt? (Or maybe the whole shaker? <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />)