We had just landed at Port Lockroy in Antarctica to do a little shopping at the old British research centre. It houses a museum, a gift shop and a post office where you can send post cards from the bottom of the world. But what we were really excited to see was the sculpture of a whale skeleton that someone put together years ago.
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