The fastest average speed for an overland journey to the South Pole is 21.37 km/h (13.28 mph) for a 2,308-km (1,434.12-mile) expedition by members of the Kazakh Geographic Society (Kazakhstan), between 4 and 8 December 2010. The Antarctic journey took 108 hours on board two modified Toyota Hilux 3L Turbo Diesel cars that ran on “Jet 1A fuel”.

The team departed from Novolazarevskaya Station. The members of the expedition were Konstantin Orlov, Sergey Bodrov, Stanislav Makarenk, Hlynur Sigurdsson and Andrey Mueller.