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Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (William S. Bruce, 1902–1904)

1902 - 1907

Ross Sea Party (Support for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–1917)

1914 - 1917

Roald Amundsen's Transit of the Northwest Passage (1903–1906)

1901 - 1906

Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition (1910–1912)

1910 - 1912

Race to the South Pole (Amundsen vs. Scott, 1910–1912)

1910 - 1920

Palmer Station Long-Term Ecological Research (PAL-LTER) in Antarctica (1990–present)

1968 - 2023

Ny-Ålesund international research hub and campaigns (1990–present)

1990 - 2025

North Pole-1 and the Soviet Drifting Ice Station Program (1937–1991)

1893 - 2003

Nimrod Expedition (Ernest Shackleton, 1907–1909)

1907 - 1909

MOSAiC expedition: Multidisciplinary drifting observatory for Arctic climate (2019–2020)

2019 - 2020

Microwave remote sensing of polar sea ice (SMOS, SMAP and follow-ons) (2010–present)

2009 - 2029

McMurdo Station scientific programs and expeditions (1956–present)

1955 - 2019

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