Antarctica

the two main reasons to research Antarctica is first, the ice under the surface is a time-line of the earth's atmosphere. Antarctica is a dessert and little precipitation and allows for a graphic time-line when drilled out in cores. Secondly, the atmosphere around the poles is important in measuring the global warming and the fear of the rising oceans because of glacial melting.

v Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest place on Earth. The lowest temperature ever recorded was -89.6 degrees Celsius. Wind speeds during gales can reach 320km per hour. The average wind speed is over 70km per hour. These conditions can be a difficulty because of the cold, windy weather. v If you are not wearing enough warm clothing while you are at Antarctica, it could result in frostbite. Frostbite is when your body gets so cold, that your fingers and toes could turn black and fall off. v No roads make it hard to locate your position on a map. v Twenty-Four hours of sunlight can make it hard to get some sleep!!!! - Four months of the year, Antarctica receives constant sunlight! - In July there is no daylight at all, which is a difficulty because it would be hard to see, and it would be colder, but obviously nobody would choose to go to Antarctica during that difficult stage. People pretty much only go to Antarctica during the Summer.

Your answer depends on the type of structure being built.

Research station buildings are built using common building materials, all of which are imported to the continent. Wood, glass and metal are most common.

In an emergency, a person can carve ice bricks from the ice sheet and fashion an igloo.

No country owns any part of Antarctica.

All land and ice south of 60 degrees S is governed by the Antarctic Treaty (1961), and is preserved for the scientific study of the health of planet earth.

Nations including Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina, France and Norway claim territory on the continent, and some of these claims overlap each other. The treaty holds all these claims in abeyance and prohibits future claims.

There is no commercial air service to anywhere on Antarctica.

Landing fields used by government logistical deliveries and exportations can be land, or more commonly ice field runways. Aviation controllers familiar with the military logistical equipment aid in takeoffs and landings.

Each government has a different maximum number, but generally, a temporary worker can remain 'on the ice' for up to 12 months, and then a six-week break 'off the ice' is required in order to return to Antarctica.

Bellingshausen Station is a Russian research station located on King George Island, one of the South Shetland Islands.

Like all scientific research stations south of 60 degrees S, it is governed by the Antarctic Treaty. This means that all the work there is scientific work that studies the health of planet earth.

Generally, across the Antarctic continent, the wind is constant. Blizzards occur frequently, depending on where you are on the continent. One could assume that there may be a blizzard every day somewhere in Antarctica, especially during the Fall, Winter and Spring months. Blizzards also occur during the Summer there.

On February 4, 1902, British Navy Captain Robert Falcon Scott made the first flight over the world's most remote continent. Scott went aloft in a tethered hot-air balloon off the Antarctic Coast.

Captain Scott trekked from his base locations on McMurdo Sound to the South Pole.

lots of stuff, warm clothing. Boots, proper boots designed for ice, a compass, maybe some form of moving around other than walking like a snowmobile?? lots of food and water

Antarctica is a continent dedicated to science and governed by the Antarctic Treaty. It's limited use and governance is unique on planet earth.

According to its Wikipedia page: this honour belongs to B-15 which calved off the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. It measured ". . . around 295 kilometres (183 mi) long and 37 kilometres (23 mi) wide, with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres (4,200 sq mi) -- larger than the whole island of Jamaica." Estimates are based on satellite images of the event.

Ten years later, parts of this iceberg had not melted.

Going far enough back Antarctica was tropical.

Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) was a British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic (1907-09, 1914-17, 1921-22), during which the South Magnetic Pole was located in 1909.

It is the largest river in Antarctica, and at 30 kilometres in length, it is also the longest.

Shell Oil recently proved that regardless of the amount of money an industry is willing to 'throw' at drilling for oil in a polar environment -- US seven billion dollars spent in the Arctic -- it is not economically feasible.

As well, the Antarctic Treaty prohibits any commerce south of 60 degrees S.

Depending on what's being studied, a scientist may walk, ride a Ski-doo, ride in a truck, a bulldozer, a Tucker or a helicopter. They arrive on the continent either by government-sponsored airplanes or government-sponsored, ice-reinforced-hull boats.

This answer is an unknown, since oil exploration is prohibited under the Antarctic Treaty.

. Small amounts of tourism is acceptable because it causes no more than a minor or transitory impact on the environment but if there were masses of tourism it would ruin the environment

No one 'lives' in Antarctica, unless one has been hired by a government to live and work in Antarctica temporarily. In these cases, workers are paid for their services.