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Replay: An American in Soviet Antarctica, Part I

May 11, 2019 at 7:55 am · Filed under Expeditions

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Stewart Gillmore in Mirny Station, 1961.

Stewart Gillmor talks about his fourteen-month stay at Mirny Station, the Soviet Union’s Antarctica base. Gillmor was the sole American at Mirny in 1960-1962 during the height of the Cold War.

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Gillmor holding the Russian coat he used at Mirny Station.

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