What it would be like to live permanently in Antarctica
It’s not only the physical challenges, but also the mental side of living in Antarctica, that would make a permanent human settlement there difficult
ON OCTOBER 25, 1991, I made my first trip to the United States’ Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. I vividly remember landing on the ice runway onboard a ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules aircraft.
Upon exiting the polar plane, I experienced a blast of cold air that – despite having lived and worked in chilly Alaska – was somehow profoundly different.
The temperature was a brisk minus 53.6 degrees Celsius, with a windchill of minus 75.5 deg C and a wind speed of 9 knots. The physiological altitude was equivalent to being 3,370 metres above sea level.
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