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5. Omond House, a meteorological station on Laurie Island, was built in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition and transferred to the Argentine government in 1904, becoming the first permanent base in Antarctica

The station was named 'Omond House' after Robert Omond, director of the Edinburgh Observatory & supporter of the expedition. In the second photo, Gilbert Kerr, official piper of the Scotia crew, alongside a penguin (March 1904)

6. Shackleton's Hut at Cape Royds. In the third photo, Shackleton (left background). The hut was a prefabricated structure 10m x 5.8m, divided into a series of mainly two-person cubicles, with a kitchen area, a darkroom, storage and laboratory space en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_Ex

7. Halley VI British Antarctic Research Station (operational since 2012), located on the Brunt Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea near the Caird coast, East Antarctica hbarchitects.co.uk/halley-vi-brit Measurements made here (Halley IV, 1983-1994) led to the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985

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8. The Argentine antarctic station 'Base Decepción' in 2016 and a 1829 map of Deception Island. The island is the caldera of an active volcano, whose eruption seriously damaged the local research stations in 1967 and 1969

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9. The Neumayer Station III is a German polar research station located at Atka Bay on the Ekström Ice Shelf, which is about 200 metres thick. The station is drifting with the ice shelf ca. 157 metres per year towards the open sea

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10. The 'Kharkovchanka', a Soviet Antarctic all-terrain vehicle, created in May 1958 at the Malyshev Kharkov Transport Engineering Plant

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11. McMurdo Station (left) and Scott Base (right) as seen from the Ross Ice Shelf. Mount Erebus, the world's southernmost active volcano, is in the background. Photograph by Anthony Powell

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12. The Concordia Research Station, a French–Italian research facility

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13. Scott Base, a New Zealand research station in Antarctica, located on Ross Island, near Mount Erebus Love that Chelsea Cucumber green of the buildings...