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    from the word antarctic, which comes from Middle French antartique or antarctique ('opposite to the Arctic') and, in turn, the Latin antarcticus ('opposite...
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    station on the Antarctic Plateau besides Vostok Station (Russian) and the AmundsenScott South Pole Station (U.S.) at the Geographic South Pole. It is jointly...
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    a DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft to rescue Dr. Ronald Shemenski from the AmundsenScott South Pole Station. This was the first ever rescue from the South Pole...
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    24–25 April 2001, two Twin Otters performed the first winter flight to AmundsenScott South Pole Station to perform a medical evacuation. On 21–22 June 2016...
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    Antarctic Exploration. Among its members were Frederick Cook and Roald Amundsen, explorers who would later attempt the respective conquests of the North...
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    total of 175 positive cases have been detected. Covid also reached Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and WAIS Divide. On 8 November 2022, 20 positive...
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  • complex, embroidered designs for this purpose. William Colbeck Robert Falcon Scott ("Ready Aye Ready") Albert Borlase Armitage ("Semper Paratus") Michael Barne...
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    were of various nationalities. The first mate of the vessel was Roald Amundsen – who was to conquer the South Pole in 1911. Apart from Racoviță, the team...
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    Terres Australes, Comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique. Paris. Gendron, Pedro. (1754). La America: dispuesta segun el Sistema...
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    expedition, led by Charcot) gabierschimeriques.free.fr Le Pourquoi-Pas? en Antarctique Text of the report on its shipwreck by Eugène Gonidec, sole survivor...
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  • (1911). "Echinoderma. Astéries, Ophiures, et Échinides de l'Expédition Antarctique Anglaise de 1907-1909". British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, Reports...
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