Research stations in Antarctica must overcome three obstacles: logistics for how to build and maintain them, climate control for comfortable temperatures, and comfort in general for the personnel including space to spread out, quality of food, health and safety, and some leisure time. In this podcast I describe how the first stone and wood huts in the Antarctic used for science and exploration only partially solved these problems and how modern research stations and their designs evolved and developed to the stations we have today. I also discuss some of the constraints and mental fatigue that personnel face when living in cold and darkness in the Antarctic winter.
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