As new snow falls each year, only the tip of the 30-year-old US South Pole research station now pokes above the surface. Today, residents have to enter via a steep staircase in a hole carved out of the ice. |
As new snow falls each year, only the tip of the 30-year-old US South Pole research station now pokes above the surface. Today, residents have to enter via a steep staircase in a hole carved out of the ice. |
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