The Route
Polly will leave the UK early May 2003, a year which celebrates 100 years of powered flight. Her route will initially take her over Norway, across the North Pole to Resolute,Canada then South through North America, Central America and South America to Punta Arenas on the southern-most tip of Chile.

The map below shows her proposed route from Punta Arenas, across the South Pole to New Zealand. Uniquely Polly has been granted exceptional permission by the British Antarctic Survey to land at its Rothera research station. Returning home she will fly north along the east coast of Australia, through Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia to the Andaman Islands and India. Her route from here to Jordan will obviously have to take into consideration the world political situation in the Middle East at that time. The last few legs of the route will be virtually the reverse of her 2001 trip, ie Cyprus, Crete, Italy, France and back into the UK around January or February 2004.

The length of the trip is very much dictated by the fact that it is only possible to fly over the two Poles during the few summer weeks of each hemisphere.