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The Penguin and the Paper

This is Scott's desk. The penguin is an emperor and it has been there for nearly one-hundred years. The paper is from 1908.


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 Flag Speculation over the existence of a "southern land" was not confirmed until the early 1820s when British and American commercial operators and British and Russian national expeditions began exploring the Antarctic Peninsula region and other areas sou... [read more]
Blog: A Monument to the Heroic Age of Exploration
Date: October 22nd 2005

Greetings from Antarctica! The last several weeks have been filled with lots of work, several small adventures and lots of good-byes. The summer season is now underway and the planes are bringing more and more people every day - McMurdo’s population is around 1000 now and more will be showing up soon. It has been a lot of fun having the runway so close to town, because the planes can be cle ... read more


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