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Lucinda Cameron & Alexander Smail

Haggis shipped to Antarctica for 'biggest ever' Burns Night celebration

Hundreds of people celebrated Scotland's most beloved poet at the largest-ever Burns Supper held in Antartica.

Haggis was specifically delivered to the continent aboard the UK's exploration ship RRS Sir David Attenborough so that employees at the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station could celebrate the occasion. The event, which was held on Saturday, saw 140 people - including 50 Scots - take part.

Among the guests in attendance were meteorologist Mairi Simms, 39, from Pitlochry in Perthshire, who is on her 11th deployment to Rothera as science co-ordinator and was chief organiser of the Burns Supper.

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