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DURING the course of our recent investigations of the microbiota of air and soil in Antarctica, a food cache which was partially covered by a snow embankment was found at Cape Evans, Ross Island. The cache was left at this base camp by Captain Robert Falcon Scott of the British Royal Navy prior to his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1911, and consisted of various types of tinned foods together with a glass container of granular, dehydrated bakers' yeast (1 lb. capacity).
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MEYER, G., MORROW, M. & WYSS, O. Viable Micro-organisms in a Fifty-Year-Old Yeast Preparation in Antarctica. Nature 196, 598 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196598a0
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