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Scott Base

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Ross Island

In Ross Island
About one mile south is Scott Base, a New Zealand station. A steep pyramid of rock called Observation Hill rises between the two stations. In 1907 Ernest Shackleton, a British explorer, established a camp at Camp Royds, and Robert Falcon Scott, in 1910, set up a camp at Cape Evans…
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