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There is finally some chilly weather, but compared with Antarctica, it’s a summer day. As Kim Stanley Robinson says in “Nightmare on the Ice” in this month’s Smithsonian, “Flying to Antarctica from New Zealand is like changing planets.”

Recalling that its’ seasons are opposite ours, the icy world down under is fascinating to many and McMurdo Station on Ross Island is home to a thousand people each summer. The Antarctic Heritage Trust has preserved the original huts and the original lab in the Cape Evans hut is preserved just as Robert Scott left it in 1902. Expeditions in those days relied on...