McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research centre located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National Science Foundation. The station is the largest community in Antarctica, capable of supporting up to 1,258 residents, and serves as the United States Antarctic science facility. All personnel and cargo going to or coming from Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station first pass through McMurdo.

Manuela Vargas at a dress rehearsal for “The Tigress of the Flamenco” given by her company at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. (Photo by Dennis Oulds/Central Press/Getty Images). 4th November 1964

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Three secondary schoolboys smoking an illicit cigarette in Hyde Park, London. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images). May 1972

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Winner of the Sandow bodybuilding competition, Mr. Murray. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Thiele/Getty Images). Circa 1905