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Re:Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @12:01AM (#8201040)
"Pick a point on the globe--any point--and Maersk won't be far away."

This immediately makes me want to calculate the Maersk pole of inaccessibility just to prove them wrong. Maybe xkcd can get on it. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility)

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Re:Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load by nl on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @01:25AM (#8201194)
Maersk does some land shipping too.

But I don't think Maersk (or anyone) does much work shipping across land on Antarctica. They do supply some of the research stations[1], but these tend to be on the coast.

Given that, I'd imagine somewhere in the middle on Antarctica would be about the furthest.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk_Peary

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Re:Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load by chmullig on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @09:58AM (#8202302)
But if there's a single shipping container at Amundsen-Scott...
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