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Aurora australis over Halley research station

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Rapid deglaciation of Marguerite Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula in the Early Holocene

M.J. Bentley, J.S. Johnson, D.A. Hodgson, T. Dunai, S.P.H.T. Freeman, C. O. Cofaigh

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Current Temperatures Location °C
Cambridge
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Rothera
1.3
Halley
-6
Bird Island
5.3
King Edward Point
11.2
Ernest Shackleton
-1
James Clark Ross
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Stanley
11.9
South Pole
-38.5

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