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Goethe said, “The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.” He never saw Mount Erebus. The 3,795 meter (12,448 foot) tall volcano soars majestically into Antarctic skies, collared by mist and fog. Multiple craters crown its summit, while its fumaroles and vents build complex towers and ice columns. Erebus eruptions generate the rarest of volcanic crystals, seen on only one other volcano on Earth. And while the mountain may seem tranquil most of the time, its beauty has come at the hand of violent forces.
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The Maori, peoples migrating from eastern Polynesia, populated New Zealand in several waves between 1250 and 1300 AD.
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As related in the text Hawaiki: the Original Home of the Maori, by S. Percy Smith (Cambridge University Press 1910)
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Palmer could never have imagined that some two centuries later, a mission called the Europa Clipper will head to the outer Solar System.
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Just 20 km to the south lies Esperanza Base, one of Argentina’s year-round Antarctic outposts.
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The Mariner Museum online library: http://ageofex.marinersmuseum.org/
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See Physics in Australia to 1945 - BERNACCHI, Louis Charles at www.asap.unimelb.edu.au
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Carroll, M., Lopes, R. (2019). The Lure of the Poles. In: Antarctica: Earth's Own Ice World. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74624-1_1
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