OREANDA-NEWS. Innovative holding M2M telematics provides comprehensive information and technical support of the international expedition ICE & SAND, that starts at the end of December in Moscow. JEEP Wrangler Unlimited is equipped with AVL-terminal based onGLONASS. The route runs across three continents: Eurasia, Africa, Antarctica and includes 20 countries and 46 cities. It will be possible to trace the movement of the participants online on the web site of M2M telematics.

Michael Kvurt, the head of information and technology support of M2M telematics, noticed that GLONASS/AVL-terminal is installed in the vehicle and it has two channels of data transmission, GSM and satellite, that will keep in touch and monitor the expedition throughout the route regardless of the terrain and conditions of transfer of GSM signal.

The participants of the expedition are planning to cover the route from Moscow to South Africa (18 thousand km) in 45 days. Next, with the assistance of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute on the vessel "Akademik Fedorov" travelers will go to the Southern Ocean to the Russian polar station "Molodezhnaya" (4,5 thousand km). There, the car will be taken off the ship and head to the Russian station "Novolazarevskaya". Then the crew with the car will be plunged again on the ship and in one and a half month across the Atlantic Ocean it will be delivered to St. Petersburg. The expected duration of the whole expedition is 130 days.

During the world tour the participants will collect material for the exhibition and documentary films about Africa and its indigenous population, about Antarctica, its fauna and flora and about the work of the 58th Russian Antarctic Expedition.

Photos and videos from the trip, the latest news and stories about the adventures will be posted on the websites of expeditions' partners and broadcasted on the radio station "Avtoradio". To monitor the progress of the expedition, please visit jeep-russia.ru, pages of Jeep brand in social networks, as well as the corporate site of M2M telematics.

Expedition ICE & SAND is the first stage of the auto-travel around the world. In the second stage the crew will travel through Russia from Moscow to Anadyr. The third stage starts in Alaska and ends in Argentina in 2014.