brilliant mistake

At first, it always seems like a good idea.

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Wohlthat Mountains near the Schirmacher Oasis, a “warm” area of Antarctica.  Nazi explorers aerially surveyed the area in the late ’30s, staking a claim by dropping 5 ft long aluminum darts engraved with swastikas. it is currently home to research stations of Russia (Novolazarevskaya) and India (Maiti)
(photo by Anton Chekalin)

Wohlthat Mountains near the Schirmacher Oasis, a “warm” area of Antarctica.  Nazi explorers aerially surveyed the area in the late ’30s, staking a claim by dropping 5 ft long aluminum darts engraved with swastikas. it is currently home to research stations of Russia (Novolazarevskaya) and India (Maiti)

(photo by Anton Chekalin)