ST. IGNACE, MI – Pieces of the Mackinac Bridge are now incorporated into the ceremonial and geographical South Pole markers in Antarctica. A circular piece cut out of a small section of original ...

Brendan Fisher, left, and Troy Leighton pose at the South Pole with a sign Fisher made with steel from the Mackinac Bridge deck grating, listing the distance to the Mackinac Bridge from Antarctica.

If London Bridge can end up in Arizona, why not send a piece of the Mackinac Bridge to the South Pole? Indiana native Brendan Fisher brought a piece of the Mackinac Bridge in November 2020 in an ...

David Keller, a New Ulm native and graduate of New Ulm High School, works as a heavy equipment operator at McMurdo Station in ...

Brendan Fisher (L) also made a sign from the bridge metal to show the distance between the South Pole and the bridge: more than 9,000 miles. On Monday, tens of thousands of people will walk across the ...

ST. IGNACE, Mich. ­- A piece of Michigan’s most iconic bridge has found a new home in the Southern Hemisphere. As sections of the Mackinac Bridge’s grating are replaced, remaining pieces that used to ...

ST. IGNACE — An iconic piece of Michigan infrastructure has found a new home in the 9,300-foot-thick sheet of ice that marks the South Pole. Brendan Fisher, a heavy equipment mechanic for the United ...

We have a ceremony every New Year’s day where we relocate the actual pole marker. Some years the United States Geologic Survey comes out and does an actual measurement with the sun, and other times we ...