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Nature 422, 104 (13 March 2003) | doi:10.1038/422104b

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Russia pulls out of Antarctic station

Bryon MacWilliams

The 13 crew members expected to arrive this week at Russia's Mirny Observatory on the Antarctic coast are likely to be tired and cold, and with good reason. When the Vostok research base at which they work ran out of fuel and supplies last month, the team was forced to take their Soviet-era trucks on a 1,400-kilometre journey across one of the coldest regions on Earth.