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January 7, 2022 35 mins
Being pregnant on an Antarctic research base is banned. So how is it that eleven children were born there in the 1980s? And where are they now? Thomas Bywater explores why it wasn’t a happy accident that Emilio Palma was born in Esperanza Base.

With thanks to Horacio Villalobos, Meredith Nash, Damien Venuto, Juan Lucio Palma, Emilio Palma

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