Bikini shot commemorates South Pole visit

LONDON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- British Royal Navy officer Polly Hatchard celebrated her recent visit to the South Pole by stripping down to a bikini in the freezing cold for a photograph.

The Sun reported the 30-year-old officer, who traveled more than 112 miles of frozen tundra to reach a South Pole scientific base, posed for the photograph in only a bikini and a feather boa despite the area's frigid temperature.

Hatchard, who was been nicknamed Polar Polly, admitted her unusual photo opportunity on New Year's Day did not last very long.

"I didn't hang around very long -- the hairs in my nostrils froze," she confessed. "It was well worth it."

To help commemorate the event, Hatchard took a teddy bear she named Boobie Bear with her on the hazardous trek that began on Christmas Day 2006.

In addition to the likely unprecedented photograph, Hatchard made history by becoming the first female armed forces member to complete the hazardous journey to the South Pole.