152 Vodka in a Vegemite Jar

Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica by Matthew Alan McArthur

Dec 1, 202301:00:12Science & Medicine

In 1983 Australian glaciologist Trevor Hamley joined a Soviet traverse from the Russian coastal station, Mirny, to Dome Charlie, high atop the Antarctic plateau. Bouncing about in the back of a T-55 tank converted into a...

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