A team of British and Canadians made a trip to the so-called Point of Inaccessibility (POI) in Antarctica on foot recently. This point (which obviously isn't really inaccessible since they got there) is called that because it is as far from anywhere on the continent as you can get. But they were not the first to reach it. An expedition from the former Soviet Union had made the trek by mechanized means in 1958 and had set up a small camp there. The modern explorers discovered that the previous visitors had left behind a souvenir.
"When we were within six kilometres of the position signalled on the GPS we noticed a black dot on the horizon," Teamn2i said on their website.
"As we got closer an outline of (a) bust started to appear — we could not believe it as we were expecting at the very best a mound of snow from when Lenin was left there 48 years ago.
"He is standing on a chimney of the old Soviet hut about two meters above the snow line — he is a shoulder bust of Lenin larger than life size.
"It is made of some plastic composite — he is totally frost free as if he was put there yesterday.
"It (is) so so very surreal. We are all so exhausted that we have only just put up the tent with Lenin's stern gaze over us!"
It should be noted that they also discovered a bust of Marx:
Unfortunately, the thriving flock of penguins that the Soviets had reported seeing were no longer there. The penguins, inspired by the visit from their glorious international socialist brothers, formed a collective. denounced the capitalist West and promptly starved to death.
