Ever since humans first set foot on polar landscapes, scientific insights have been gained by researchers often isolated in small field camps or stations, living in environments that can freeze flesh in minutes, and jury-rigging failed equipment to keep life and work going in adverse conditions. Scientific discovery itself has become the product of another kind of science—that of polar exploration. Success comes from employing techniques and ideas developed by Indigenous Peoples who first settled the region thousands of years ago and the European explorers who followed them centuries later.
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