Scott Base

Scott Base is a base located at in Antarctica, operated by New Zealand. It was named after Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Navy, leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica. Located near Mount Erebus in the Ross Dependency, it is New Zealand's main base in Antartica. It was set up as support to field research and the centre for research into earth sciences, but now conducts research in many fields.

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Scott Base was constructed as part of the New Zealand Government?s contribution to the International Geophysical Year (IGY) project of 1957. New Zealand observers with the task of selecting the site for a base went to McMurdo Sound with the United States ?Operation Deep Freeze I? in the summer of 1955. After evaluating many possible sites, Butter Point was chosen. This was later changed to Pram Point as it had better overland access.

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Robert Falcon Scott: Captain Robert Falcon Scott RN (June 6, 1868 - March 29, 1912) was a British Naval officer and Antarctic explorer. Having narrowly failed to be the first to reach the South Pole, beaten by Roald Amundsen and his party, Scott and his party died on the Ross Ice Shelf whilst trying to return to the saf...

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