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Clara M.

Base 211: The Legend of Hitler's Secret Nazi Base in Antarctica

Nazi Germany claimed a slice of Antarctica with swastika darts in 1939. Then came the legend of Base 211 — Hitler's secret ice fortress. Did it ever exist?

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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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Edward C.

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

Tragedies & Disasters

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.

Edward C.