Two Weeks on Ice in McMurdo Station, Antarctica
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      By JONATHAN CORUM
    
      JULY 19, 2017
    
  
        
        
        
            
            

            
                        What We Saw
                        Two Weeks on Ice in McMurdo Station, Antarctica
                        
                        By JONATHAN CORUMJuly 19, 2017
                        
                    
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                            Jonathan Corum and three other New York Times journalists visited Antarctica in November, through a media program of the National Science Foundation. Watch their four virtual-reality films about Antarctica.
                            Films and articles from our trip to Antarctica

                            


                            

                            
                                

                                
                                The Antarctica Series: Virtual Reality May 18, 2016
                                

                                

                                
                                Miles of Ice Collapsing Into the Sea May 18, 2016
                                

                                

                                
                                Where Else Does the U.S. Have an Infrastructure Problem? Antarctica July 17, 2017
                                

                                
                            
                            Videos by Graham Roberts, photographs by Jonathan Corum.
                        


        

            
            

            
            
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