How do people survive in bases based in antarctica?

Answer 1

•The most important part of surviving in the desert is to avoid direct sunlight. That is how the turban came to be. Often if stuck in the desert, people will take off their shirt and wrap it around their head.

•Next, if water is available in small amount, for example in a canteen, it's important to ration it to last as long as possible. It's also important to be resourceful. To keep fluids in your body, you may need to drink your own urine. This will only work once though, after 2 cycles through the body, urine becomes toxic to the kidneys.

•If you know you're stuck, with miles and miles of desert around you, your best bet is to stay put. Often deserts have their own patrols that fly throughout the desert looking for stranded people. It's best to conserve energy to stay alive until you're rescued

Answer 2

Transportation in Antarctica must be able to handle low weather temperatures and extreme wind. People get around in Antarctica by land on Volkswagen Beetles or by simply walking and by water on boat.

Answer 3

First off - Antarctica is reported to have only one permanent resident (a Father Georgy) and between 1000 to 2000 "transients" sent to camps by various governments and research organizations.

To support these folks the various governments and organizations have established camps with well insulated buildings and transportation in and out by aircraft. Food, fuel, clothing, medicines and other necessities are brought in during good weather based on the logistics of the operations.

Camps are staffed with personnel trained in health medicine and communications as well as other skills. Personnel are trained in cold weather survival (frostbite etc.) and are provided with proper clothing and other gear.

If the supply of necessities were stopped, the bases would become non-operative and all their personnel would die as. at present, there is no way to grow food or provide heat independent of external supplies. It may be possible to build a self contained arcology that would allow permanent independent survival, but no examples have been constructed.

Answer 4

There is a working science research station at the South Pole -- the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It is habitable, thanks to the USA's National Science Foundation.