Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica Highways

OUR QXZ AD:

Antarctica Route 1—there's never a rush hour.

An Antarctica Highway 1 shield for humans

An Antarctica Highway 1 shield for penguins

Title

Antarctica Highways and Routes WikiProject

Scope

Our purpose is to provide information on highways in Antarctica.

Similar WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:Road humor
• WikiProject Nunavut Roads

Parent WikiProjects

• WikiProject Hyperspace bypasses
• WikiProject Highways
• WikiProject Antarctica

Participants

Participants add this to their userpage: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica Highways/Userbox}}

	This user is a member of the Antarctica Highways WikiProject.

1. Triadian (founder) Never been there, but honestly, would it make a difference? (Look what I've started... muahahaha!)
2. Rschen7754 What is the naming convention for these highways?
3. Stratosphere Working on the mass transit systems and bridges to S. America.
4. Myselfalso I'm hoping to make it down once the bridges to the continent are complete.
5. Vishwin60 Definitely coming down here once WikiProject Bridges build the bridges. Also looking on eBay for some stuff I could bring down.
6. ROASTYTOAST I swear I've traveled on one.
7. ACBestMy Contributions 16:54, 10 February 2007 (UTC) Alright! I'll Bring My Tool Kit!
8. Lost in the glaciation: Working on defunct roads due to collapsed ice shelves.
9. WikiLeon Shooting pics of Antarctic highways for the Commons. If only the fog and snow flurries would let off.
10. Mr. crabby I was caught drunk driving on an Antarctica highway. (I hate those penguin state troopers)
11. Jhughes89 I went on one, in a dream
12. User:Brianhe As the original author of McMurdo-South Pole highway I definitely need to be on this project.
13. Chicken7 Once there's are highway to Antarctica I'll go and research
14. Yamaka122 This is a very important topic that every encyclopedia should include. Think of the penguins.
15. John Carter 16:29, 13 June 2007 (UTC) - A criminally overlooked subject of staggering importance to walking waterfowl.
16. Wizardman - With effort we could probably get all articles involved to FA status.--Wizardman 18:15, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
17. master son^{T - C} - It was that cold? Gonna need some well cured concrete for these highways
18. Okiefromokla - I used to be a penguin
19. Wiki Wistah 02:36, 16 July 2007 (UTC) - Am looking into reports that U.S. Congress has US$315M for a bridge here ....
20. milk the cows - I am a penguin.
21. RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 00:47, 1 August 2007 (UTC) - I'll shovel the snow with my raccoon friends and sell the snow for a huge profit! :)
22. --Fightingirish 01:39, 17 August 2007 (UTC) I plan on a comprehensive profile of spur routes there
23. Can't sleep, clown will eat me fortunately I have the latitude to help out.
24. OZOO (What?) I'm working into becoming a penguin.
25. Æetlr Creejl I hear they're building a "Route 66" going from McMurdo to Vostok.
26. Brian Schlosser42 When will the connector to the Bering Straits Bridge be completed?
27. —Coastergeekperson04^{'s talk} will design an expressway from the South Pole to Amudsen-Scott.
28. Canuck85 Remember folks, always watch for penguins crossing the street!
29. Comte0 Interested in roads crossing the frontier between Australia and France. 17:48, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
30. Pumpmeup - I specialize in State highway yammawothcigoffimus, crossing the Australian Antarctic territory.
31. -- lucasbfr My area of expertise is Penguin Paths, thanks to Yetisports.
32. -- Advanstra Mapping the long distance Icebus routes
33. • Freechild'sup? Urging the usage of public transportation and HOV lanes on all Antarctic highways.
34. — ComputerGuy890100 04:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC) All about HOV lanes!
35. Dancingwombatsrule Really useful project!! I'm interested to know if there are double yellow lines in Antartica?
36. Malik Shabazz I hope to visit one day, so I'd like to know about the highways.
37. --Bossi (talk • gallery • contrib) My OCD involving roads meets my OCD involving travel.
38. Asenine - BIG PROFIT! That's the one.
39. BobAmnertiopsis_{ChitChat Me!} Anything for the Antarctica DOT.
40. Clockwisekid (talk) 08:22, 4 August 2008 (UTC) - I FINALLY have an outlet for my Antarctican-highway related knowledge :)
41. User:Candlewicke (talk) - I'll be working on the proposed highway linking Antarctica to Europe. But where to house those penguins fleeing from the melting ice caps?
42. Dravecky - Antarctica's elaborate highway information radio system needs coverage.
43. Cadwaladr - If this project had existed when my grandma was alive, she would have liked it.
44. Dough4872 - I will work to create an elaborate numbering system for Antarctica highways, similar to the Interstate Highway System. Have to find a way to get there though. (I don't plan on going anytime soon as I am not a fan of the cold weather)
45. SriMesh - I will create route junctions boxes for all the Walrus crossing intersectons at all the Penguin Paths.
46. TStein - Covering the physics of the Antartic Highways
47. ~EdGl ★ 22:54, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
48. The Bushranger - Beware of the penguins.
49. I think it's brilliant. ^(C/SSG)G2sai_(talk) 01:19, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
50. Fredddie™ 04:22, 9 October 2009 (UTC) - We're gonna need a bigger salt truck.
51. Wonder if there's a route log... –Juliancolton | ^Talk 15:13, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
52. Proud to help out with this important work! Outback the koala (talk) 02:33, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
53. ^walk victor falk ^talk I'll contribute with roadkill trivia. Did you know than an Hercules almost landed on a penguin the next-to-last winter?
54. I specially like the "Goals" section of this project. If you guys don´t mind, I would like to take care of the second phase, sounds hard work! But I will obviously allways keep an eye for the third one. After all, that is the FINAL GOAL, right? FkpCascais (talk) 18:05, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
55. I wonder if they have a carpool lane... Fatmandan420 (talk) 05:56, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
56. As a roadgeek, I feel I must be a member, and hope to one day be a contributing member of the WikiProject. VI_WS ^talk 11:48, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
57. User:Arzino, talk 14.52, 26 August 2011 (CEST)
58. ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹^Speak 15:19, 14 September 2011 (UTC) - My favourite Antarctica highway is the one with the snow on it.

Structure

Articles on Antarctica Highways should be named with the convention: Antarctica Route x (where x is the route number). If a more common name can be found for the highway, use that instead. For footrails, the naming convention is Antarctica n Trail (where n is the name of the trails). For routes made by penguins, the naming convention is Penguin Path z (Antarctica) (where z is the route number). Please note that Penguin trails use the Principle 2 format from WP:SRNC; this is to ensure SPUI's happiness.

Goals

• Phase 1: Find Antarctica Highways
• Phase 2: ????
• Phase 3: BIG PROFIT!

Antarctica Highways Found

• Casey Road (Casey Station, Antarctica)
• Penguin Path 482
• Penguins clearing the way for a new Breeding Grounds Bypass. (When complete, it should 88 lanes wide, however the project is low on funds.)
• Penguin Path 66 (Looks like a few penguins decided to take advantage of the rest area by the water)
• Antarctica Route 1
• Lack of signage leaves some penguins confused
• Big Road Sign And you thought the signage at Death Valley was bad.
• USSR Communist driving a VW on an Antarctic road in 1963 amid the secret Ice Race of the Cold War
• Roadkill in Antarctica

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, picture-taking (if possible), or doing construction work for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• Example article: User:SPUI

Other subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Templates

• {{Infobox road}}
• {{User:Dough4872/Antarctica-highway-stub}}
• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica Highways/Userbox}}
• {{User:ACBest/WikiProject Antartica Highways}}

Categories

• Category:Transport in Antarctica

Lists

Did you know?

• There are no paved roads in Antarctica.
• It is cold in Antarctica.

Importance scale

Extreme	Any article we've been offered large cash bribes honoraria to write, whether it has anything to do with Antarctica or roads
Top	Major highways in Antarctica
High	Highways opening soon (the meaning of "soon" is up to the writer, but it should not be more than 40 years)
Mid	Highways in one's imagination
Low	Penguin Paths

Quality scale

Label	Criteria
FA {{FA-Class}}	It'll never happen, so keep dreaming.
FL {{FL-Class}}	When pigs penguins fly.
A {{A-Class}}	The highway actually exists and has an article that has survived Articles for Deletion.
GA {{GA-Class}}	Heck, if there is a full paragraph, that's good enough! A source or two wouldn't be bad though, but it's not required.
B {{B-Class}}	Article has at least one complete sentence that may or may not make any sense.
C {{C-Class}}	Article shows an attempt by an editor to put two or more words together to form a coherent phrase.
Start {{Start-Class}}	A page about an Antarctica highway was accidentally created through some perplexing chain of events.
Stub {{Stub-Class}}	We put this tag on articles that have nothing to do with this WikiProject's scope just to piss people off.
List {{List-Class}}	This class is for lists... I don't think we'll ever use this one.

Articles

• Image:Antarctica Route 1.jpg
• Transport in Antarctica
• South Pole Traverse

Assessment

This project now engages in assessments. Editors willing to help assess the staggering number of articles we deal with are urgently needed!

Collaboration

Like many other projects, we believe it is vital to bring focused attention on given articles to improve them. Given the, ahem, lack of manual dexterity many of our members might have, it also will help to have those members who can type assist those who can't.

Translation

Editors who can assist in translation from Aptenodytes and other related languages would be extremely valuable. Anyone who can assist is welcome to indicate as much here.

Peer review

Please list any articles for peer review here.

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