Working in Antarctica

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Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent​

Antarctica is a bleak, remote and dark place during the winter, but a handful of people each year brave the conditions to live in almost totally cut off from the rest of the world. The experience can change how they speak.

It was a suitably icy farewell salute: a handful of snowballs arcing through the sky towards RSS Ernest Shackleton as the ship slipped away from the wharf. The vessel was setting out across the stormy Southern Ocean, leaving 26 hardy souls behind on a snowbound island at the frozen tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Those waving goodbye from the shore were watching their last tangible link to the rest of the world glide off through the bitterly cold water. Ahead of them lay six months of winter, effectively marooned, in the coldest continent on the planet.

"They say it is quicker to get to someone on the International Space Station than it is to medically evacuate someone from Antarctica in the winter," says Marlon Clark, one of those 26 international researchers and support staff left behind at the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island, just to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula in March 2018. Antarctica is the least-inhabited continent on the planet – it has no permanent human population – with just a handful of research stations and bases scattered across the 5.4 million sq mile (14 million sq km) frozen landscape. "So, you're isolated," says Clark. "There's a lot of mystery and lore about 'a winter in Antarctica'. Anticipation was the strongest feeling as well as realising, 'OK, this is real, I’m going to be here for a long, long time'."

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Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent

Isolated for six months one winter, a group of scientists changed how they spoke.

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[nickndfl]

My wife wants to see snow. Maybe she can go and I can stay in FL?

 

[Goldhedge]

I applied for a job there once. Right after college graduation.

They asked what salary I had in mind. I wrote down $60K/yr.

I never got a call back.

 

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Antarctic Specially Protected Area - Wikipedia

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Transmitter Hut​

Is it the Transmitter hut or is it the Repeater hut? We definitely have one of each but I can't remember which one I visited. Either way, they both exist in an ASPA region, and I can't recall what that stands for but it's some area that is protected for wildlife and requires a special permit for access. I googled it and it's definitely not the Australian School of Performing Arts or the Australian Ski Patrol Association.


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4 ships that dock at McMurdo Station | Antarctica​

Aug 28, 2024

The last two months of the season, things get busy here at the bottom of the world. We have constant ships coming in for up to a week at a time, so here is a video on the 4 working ships that docked.


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4 vehicles custom built for Antarctica​

Jul 8, 2024

So, I was hired as a large vehicle operator at McMurdo Station, and due to the extreme conditions of Antarctica. There are very specific vehicles, machines, custom built, and strange. Built for polar and remote regions.


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[CiscoKid]

I had a very good friend who wintered over at McMurdo Station three times as a Senior Chief Petty Officer in the Navy. I would send her care packages for Christmas. Sent them out right after Thanksgiving to give them enough time to get there. I recall a woman working at the Post Office looking at the address asking me if it was a joke. "No Ma'am", I told her. That's where it is going.

 

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5 things I hate about living in Antarctica​

Sep 4, 2024

Life in McMurdo Station is in many ways good, but there are also a number of things that are definitely a bit rough. But what could you expect? It's Antarctica, there is no way that you will have all the amenities and comforts of the rest of the world.


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Five things I love about working in Antarctica​

Aug 9, 2024
Living in Antarctica may seem more bad than good, but here are five things that actually are better here than in the real world. Here at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.


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[nickndfl]

Looks like a cool plce.