Saline Resident Dennis Ward Reaches One of Earth’s Most Remote Islands for Ham Radio Expedition (Michigan)

For most travelers, a trip halfway around the world is enough of an adventure. For Saline resident Dennis Ward, it was just the beginning.

Ward recently returned from a rare expedition to Bouvet Island, a remote, glacier-covered outpost in the South Atlantic Ocean, where he joined a small international team of amateur radio operators seeking to connect with the world from one of its most isolated places.

“Bouvet Island about 1,500 miles southwest of Cape Town, South Africa, in the middle of nowhere in the South Atlantic Ocean,” says Ward. “It’s in the Antarctic polar region. The island is about 89% covered in glacier. That’s it. There’s nothing there.”

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