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Becky Sullivan

Sexual harassment and assault plague U.S. research bases in Antarctica, report says

The aurora australis over Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 2009. A new report from the National Science Foundation finds sexual harassment and assault are a major problem at remote facilities. (Patrick Cullis/U.S. Antarctic Program photo Library)

On her very first day in Antarctica, one woman was warned to avoid a certain building at the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station "unless [she] wanted to be raped."

Another was so "freaked out" by the pervasive sexual harassment that she began carrying around a hammer.

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