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Groundhog Day

I'll bet ours is not the first ANSMET blog entry with this title... When you're in Antarctica, you can expect to get all gussied up and ready to fly, and then be left at the doorstop, day after day. This was the first day we were all really expecting...

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Discovery Hut Tour

Hi everyone. It's Minako. Today was exciting Sunday here. We had a special tour of Discovery Hut, built during the Discovery Expedition of 1901-1904.  Now The hut has been designated a Historic Site or Monument.Once you enter the hut, your nose get stung from strong animal smell. There is...

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Condition 2

The alternate title for this blog entry is "The Waiting Game". We are in that state where we get together for an early breakfast, hopefully checking the flight manifest screens and typically seeing our flights up there (yeay!), but then peering around the wall at the outside weather and...

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E is for Elephant Moraine

After 24 hours of wondering, proposing, and negotiating (in both the maneuvering and bargaining senses) we have a new plan.  We're sending our field team of 6 to Elephant Moraine. There's a lot of work associated with this switch- basically all the work that went into organizing our cargo for Shackleton...

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