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Celebrating 50 Years of Life on MARS
Published: 20 December 2010
In 1960, a research expedition of McGill scientists to Axel Heiberg Island, one of the most inaccessible areas of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, culminated in the establishment of the McGill Arctic Research Station (MARS) at Expedition Fiord. Since then, McGill’s northern outpost has become one of the longest-operating seasonal field research facilities in the high [...]