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Edward C.

The Underground Antarctica

McMurdo Station: Antarctica's Largest Settlement and the Nuclear Reactor It Buried at the Bottom of the World

Antarctica's largest base ran on a leaking nuclear reactor for a decade — until cleaning it up forced the U.S. to ship a contaminated mountain home.

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McMurdo Station: Antarctica's Largest Settlement and the Nuclear Reactor It Buried at the Bottom of the World

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Scott's Hut: The Antarctic Time Capsule of the Doomed Race to the South Pole

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Scott's Hut: The Antarctic Time Capsule of the Doomed Race to the South Pole

A British expedition walked out of this Antarctic hut in 1911 to race for the South Pole. They never came back. The cold preserved everything they left behind.

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Shackleton's Endurance: The Lost Ship of the Antarctic and the 107-Year Hunt for Its Wreck

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Shackleton's Endurance: The Lost Ship of the Antarctic and the 107-Year Hunt for Its Wreck

A British ship sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915. Every man survived. The wreck then disappeared for 107 years — until a sonar image came back in 2022.

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