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Astounding Erebus

It seems that much of your Life has been spent in Antarctica.

I’ve now had 32 summer seasons there, spanning 1973 to 2020. During the 1970s and early 80s I was field operations officer for the New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme, attached to various different field parties. This improved my understand ing of what the scientists were attempting

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