page_title: Scott Base
hierarchical_section_title: Scott Base
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Scott Base, Antarctica from the air. Observation Hill in the background.
context_page_description: Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research facility located at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim. The research facility was named in honour of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, RN, leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica. The base was set up as support to field research and the centre for research into earth sciences, and now conducts research in many fields, operated by Antarctica New Zealand.
  By road, the base is 3 kilometres from the larger U.S. McMurdo Station.
context_section_description: Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research facility located at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim. The research facility was named in honour of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, RN, leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica. The base was set up as support to field research and the centre for research into earth sciences, and now conducts research in many fields, operated by Antarctica New Zealand.
  By road, the base is 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the larger U.S. McMurdo Station.
caption: Aerial photograph of Scott Base looking towards Observation Hill.
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