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True, the number is tiny dependent on various criteria. Certainly less then 25,000 people have ever spent a full month there. Less then 500 have been there for a full year, and for most of the tourists/visitors their stay ashore is measured in minutes and hours. Most visitors are there for a serious scientific purpose, and each residednt scientist is supported by a large number of laborers to support the basic infrastructure. Long term residents are those that provide housekeeping duties for a minority of serious visitors. The Antarctic is not a tourist destination, and the South Pole attracts only a few extreme visitors. To go ashore from a comfortable ship and to be back aboard for Happy Hour does not count as a visit or as tourism.

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