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ABOVE AND BELOW THE ICE
The United States’ McMurdo Station and New Zealand’s Scott Base sit close together on McMurdo Sound, an inlet of the Ross Sea. Incredibly rich in nutrients and biodiversity, the Ross Sea is one of the...
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TALES OF TWO STATIONS
Dinner last night was a great pleasure. Ola, a few friends of ours from McMurdo, and I drove 3 kilometers (about 2 miles) through the howling wind up and around the hill to get to Scott Base on the...
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ARRIVING AT McMURDO
In case you were wondering, yes, I got my ECW boots on in time to get back to the flightdeck as we started our descent to McMurdo Station. McMurdo sits on Ross Island in the shadow of Mount Erebus, an...
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MIKE FINDS SIGNS OF HUMOR ON THE ICE
After a meeting with my colleague Mike recently, he mentioned that he still finds himself thinking about the week he and I spent in Antarctica last month. In addition to the raw beauty of the pristine...
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2010 TOP TEN
Thank you to readers who sent messages about the 2012 Top Ten list that I posted a couple months ago. I always welcome comments and other feedback, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading your impressions of...
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SECRETARY KERRY URGES CONSERVATION OF ANTARCTICA’S ROSS SEA
Secretary John Kerry spoke yesterday at a reception held at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. to highlight the urgent need for international action to protect the world’s last great...
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