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2 unusual facts about Cape Adare


Cape Adare

In February 2007, the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru experienced a fire below decks while in the Ross Sea.

Louis Bernacchi

He joined Carstens Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition (1898–1900) which wintered at Cape Adare, Antarctica, joining the expedition in New Zealand after the previous physicist candidate had been rejected on medical grounds.


George Murray Levick

Part of the Northern Party, Levick spent the austral summer of 1911–1912 at Cape Adare in the midst of an Adélie Penguin rookery.


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