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.
Generally, about 1,000 people over-winter on the Antarctic continent, which is about the size of USA and Mexico combined.
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yes. most people do nowAnother AnswerPeople who live and work temporarily at Antarctic basis study the health of planet Earth. Each has a job and has been hired by a government.
Fire is a great cooking tool in the Antarctic.
The Antarctic Treaty has not been broken, it may have been violated, but it remains in full force and effect.
There is no Antarctic slave trade, nor has there ever been such.
About 70 people work there in the summer season and about 20 work there in the winter season.
Amundsen lost no team members on the expedition that he led.
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There are no 'base camps' per se on the Antarctic continent -- if you mean a place where people prepare to summit a large mountain.There are, however, many research stations on the Antarctic continent.
Antarctic cod are often eaten by seals and orcas. These fish are also called the Antarctic toothfish and are eaten primarily by people.
you could look it up but i think 702 survived the sinking of the titanic