June 13, 2024
To strengthen its claim on the continent, in 1984 Chile founded a settlement called Villa Las Estrellas in Antarctica where around 100 people live year-round. Since the nearest major hospital is more than 600 miles away and none of the resident doctors are surgeons, people who move to the settlement must have their appendix removed.
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A Trillion Tonnes of Antarctica Fell into the Sea
Antarctica, Earth’s coldest continent, is known for its remoteness, its unique fauna, and its frigid surface of ice. Around Antarctica’s periphery, dozens of ice shelves (that is, masses of glacier-fed floating ice that are attached to land) project outward into the Southern Ocean. The two largest
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