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The first reports of organochlorine pesticides in wildlife in the vicinity of the US Antarctic base at McMurdo Sound suggested that local human activity might be responsible. Measurements of samples from the British Antarctic Survey Base at Signy Island in the South Orkneys now suggest that there is a world-wide pattern of distribution by means of the oceans and the atmosphere.
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TATTON, J., RUZICKA, J. Organochlorine Pesticides in Antarctica. Nature 215, 346–348 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215346a0
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