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Ice-covered Mill Island, bookending the eastern end of the Shackleton Ice Shelf. The dark area behind the circular island is known as the Highjump Archipelago, named for the massive US Navy Antarctic mapping effort undertaken in the late 1940s

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John Sonntag / NASA
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