Scrapped snowmobiles left at Showa Base in Antarctic

Scrapped snowmobiles left at Showa Base in Antarctic

SHOWA BASE, Antarctic - About 20 scrapped snowmobiles are seen near Japan's Showa Base in the Antarctic in a photo taken Dec. 10 by a reporter accompanying Japan's research mission there. Japan will soon start a four-year plan to bring back to Japan all the waste that Japanese missions have left behind at the base and in the vicinity over the past 50 years.

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