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![Posing next to tongs used to grab onto a whale's tail in order to haul it aboard. Ceremony marking success of Antarctic whaling expedition by the Japanese Hashidate Maru whaling factory ship. Posing next to tongs used to grab onto a whale's tail in order to haul it aboard. Ceremony marking success of Antarctic whaling expedition by the Japanese Hashidate Maru whaling factory ship.](https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb0308457z/_3.jpg)
Posing next to tongs used to grab onto a whale's tail in order to haul it aboard. Ceremony marking success of Antarctic whaling expedition by the Japanese Hashidate Maru whaling factory ship.
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The Soviet research station at the South Pole of Inaccessibility in Antarctica is almost completely covered with snow 65 years after it was built. : r/interestingasfuck
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