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    McMurdo Station is an American Antarctic research station on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand–claimed Ross Dependency on the...
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    Antarctica New Zealand. MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS REGION, TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS, National Science Foundation McMurdo Station Weather (USA Today). NASA's...
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    McMurdo (24 September 1812 – 11 December 1875) was a Scottish naval officer and polar explorer after whom Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, McMurdo Station...
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    166.69 Observation Hill is a steep 754-foot (230 m) hill adjacent to McMurdo Station in Antarctica and commonly called "Ob Hill". It is frequently climbed...
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    compacted snow and ice in Antarctica that links McMurdo Station on the coast to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, both operated by the National Science Foundation...
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    research are present in the waters of the treaty region. The largest station, McMurdo Station, has a summer population of about 1,000 people and a winter population...
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    of McMurdo Station. Passenger vans with wide tires are also used to transport people around McMurdo Station and Amundsen-Scott South Pole station as well...
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    Williams Field (category McMurdo Station)
    a U.S. military mission to build a permanent science research station at McMurdo Station in anticipation of the International Geophysical Year 1957–58...
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    Icestock (category McMurdo Station)
    Icestock is an all-day, outdoor music festival held annually at McMurdo Station, Antarctica on or around New Year's Day. It was started in 1989 by three...
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  • McMurdo is a surname, as well as a name given to many places in Antarctica, including: McMurdo Station, a station at the southern tip of Ross Island in...
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    New Zealand. The base is 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the larger U.S. McMurdo Station via Willy Field road, the main road to Williams Field. Scott Base was...
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    2019-10-15. "McMurdo Ice Runway". "MCMURDO SEA ICE RUNWAY AIRPORT (ANTARCTICA) NZIR". "ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed P2V-2N Neptune 122465 McMurdo Station". aviation-safety...
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    Chapel of the Snows (category McMurdo Station)
    non-denominational Christian church located at the United States' McMurdo Station on Ross Island, Antarctica and is one of eight churches on Antarctica...
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    Phoenix Airfield (category McMurdo Station)
    early 2017, designed to replace the Pegasus Field's role in serving McMurdo Station. In last few years of Pegasus Field's operation, it had been plagued...
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    songs for the McMurdo family, such as "To the Woodlark" which he wrote at Jane McMurdo's behest. He wrote "Bonie Jean" for one of McMurdo's daughters and...
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    research stations using New Zealand Time (UTC+13:00) during summer that experience midnight sun. These include Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, McMurdo Station...
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    can be found transporting passengers at the Antarctic research station, McMurdo Station. Brewster Co. operates twenty-two unmodified Terra Buses for their...
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    inland they average about −55 °C (−67.0 °F) in Vostok. Monthly means at McMurdo Station range from −26 °C (−14.8 °F) in August to −3 °C (26.6 °F) in January...
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    McMurdo is a crater in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars, located at 84.4° S and 359.1° W. It is 30.3 km in diameter and was named after McMurdo Station...
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    operational ports include: Rothera Station, Palmer Station, Villa Las Estrellas, Esperanza Base, Mawson Station, McMurdo Station, and offshore anchorages in...
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    -77.500; 168.000) is an island in Antarctica lying on the east side of McMurdo Sound and extending 43 nautical miles (80 km; 49 mi) from Cape Bird in...
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  • to do so. American research stations in Antarctica—Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, McMurdo Station, and Palmer Station—are under U.S. jurisdiction...
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    hired the Krasin as a secondary vessel to help clear a channel to McMurdo Station because the Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star faced a record cut through...
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    Lake Fryxell (category McMurdo Dry Valleys)
    Diatoms". Retrieved 17 November 2017. "Lake Fryxell Meteorological Station". McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER. Retrieved 31 August 2021. Henderson, R. A. (1966)...
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  • www.antarctica.gov.au. 2019-02-18. Retrieved 2024-03-31. "Welcome To McMurdo Station" (PDF). U.S. National Science Program. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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    over the ice sheet from McMurdo, the McMurdo-South Pole highway, which is 995 miles (1,601 km) long. Data access to the station is provided by NASA's TDRS-4...
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    Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center (CSEC), located at McMurdo Station, was dedicated in November 1991 by the National Science Foundation...
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    Pegasus Field (category McMurdo Station)
    airstrip in Antarctica, the southernmost of three airfields serving McMurdo Station. It closed due to excessive melting in the summer season caused by...
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  • from October 1965 to February 1972. The station was located 300 miles (500 kilometers) southeast of McMurdo Station, near the center of the Ross Ice Shelf...
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    year, the United States built McMurdo Station and Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, and the Soviet Union built Mirny Station. The Antarctic Treaty, first...
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