Playing darts in Antarctica

"In the winter [the base] held radio darts contests with other bases.  After a couple of years of competition someone went to Bird Island and discovered that the small scientific station there, its occupants always keen participants, had never had a dartboard there."

from Terra Incognita by Sara Wheeler

(Terra Incognito was one of the books I used last year in my dissertation.  It's one of my favourite books on Antarctia, along with Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the world.)

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