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Aerial Photography

Main accommodation and science buildings at Halley V Research Station
The area around Rothera Research Station. The station is on the peninsula at the bottom right.
The main accommodation buildings at Rothera Research Station
Aerial photograph of part of the Antarctic Peninsula
Penguin colonies brown areas on Avian Island, Marguerite Bay. Individual penguins can be counted at full resolution.
The hangar area at Rothera Research Station showing Dash 7 and Twin Otter aircraft.

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