24: The Mysterious Death of Astrophysicist, Rodney Marks | Antarctica

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🗓️ 25 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

After a day’s work, Rodney Marks was an Australian astrophysicist, Rodney Marks, became violently ill. 24 hours later he was dead. But due to the harsh weather conditions, it would be six months before his body could be transported to New Zealand for a post-mortem examination. Results showed that Rodney had died from methanol poisoning. On the base were 49 other people, trapped in the winter cold. Was Rodney killed by one of his co-workers, or was his death a tragic accident?

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0:55.0	in October 2000 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
0:57.0	The local coroner was faced with an unusual case.
1:00.0	He had to examine the body of a 32-year-old Australian scientist who had passed away while working at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in the South Pole.
1:10.0	Christchurch is the gateway to the Antarctic and many scientists and researchers use the New Zealand city as the last outpost before venturing to the white continent.
1:19.0	Rodney Marks had died of natural causes at the Amundsen Scott Medical Facility six months before.
1:27.3	Because of bad weather conditions, the scientist's body was placed in the snow where it was
1:31.8	to be preserved until transport could be sent at the end of the polar winter.
1:36.0	The Amundsen Scott Research Station, where Rani was based, is one of the most isolated places on Earth. It is run by the National Science Foundation of the United States or NSF.
1:48.0	However, the base is situated in the Ross Dependency Territory, an area claimed by New Zealand.
1:55.0	So Roddy's case made for the dirty jurisdictional tug of war, an Australian citizen
2:00.2	working at an American base in New Zealand territory.
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