Palmer Station Celebrates 50 Years of Antarctic Discovery

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Posted March 21, 2018

Image credit: Zenobia (Zee) Evans, NSF

Fifty years ago this week, NSF's Palmer Station was established on Anvers Island, on the #Antarctic Peninsula. The 34 people currently on station celebrated the occasion on March 20 with cake, a flag raising and toasts.

Palmer is one of three stations NSF runs in its Presidentially mandated role as manager of the U.S. Antarctic Program. The others are McMurdo, on Ross Island, and Amundsen-Scott South Pole.