VFYW: Fortitudine Vincimus!

"By endurance we conquer!" - the phrase applies to both Shackleton and the winner of contest #312.

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A reader writes:

An abandoned strip mining pit is clear, at least to my wife, with some beat-up fuel storage tanks …