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Group led by geologist Raymond Priestley conducts scientific research on Mt. Erebus in 1912.
A campsite used by a group led by geologist Raymond Priestley during the 1912 "Race to the Pole" was recently discovered by a National Science Foundation-supported research team. Priestley's was the second study of the summit region of Mt. Erebus; the first occurred from 1907-1909.
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