Antarctic bases are hotbeds of stress and violence; space stations could face the same challenges
Earlier this week, reports emerged that a scientist at South Africa's SANAE IV Antarctic research base had accused a ...
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Physical Assault, Death Threats at Isolated Antarctic Station
It's the worst nightmare for researchers at an isolated polar station: What when someone wigs out and you can neither flee ...
Polar scares: assault in the Antarctic
There are about 10,000 scientists stationed in Antarctica during the summer but, in the harsh winter, that number drops to ...
This is the Antarctica research crew trapped in icy hell with co-worker who ‘snapped and started attacking them’
One of them is a madman — accused of violently beating, threatening and sexually harassed at least two of his teammates.
Researchers at Antarctic station where team member ‘threatened to kill colleague’ previously made a horror film
The current team, which includes engineers, a mechanic, a doctor and a meteorologist, face a long winter in Antarctica at South Africa’s remote Sanae IV base ...
Scientists in Antarctica: why they’re there and what they’ve found
The researchers and base personnel remain in Antarctica for approximately 15 months working through the cold and dark winter ...
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Antarctica: how geopolitics plays out at the end of the Earth
Antarctica is Earth's only uninhabited continent, home to the South Pole, and subject to a delicate balance of cooperation ...
Fear in Antarctic base as research team member is accused of assault
A member of a small South African research team at a remote Antarctic base has accused a colleague of assault and pleaded for ...
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South Africa’s Antarctica base hit by assault claims: What happened?
Reports of assault were first reported last weekend by South Africa’s Sunday Times newspaper, which claimed to have seen a ...
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Researchers at Antarctic station where team member ‘threatened to kill colleague’ previously made a horror film
Antarctic researchers made a short horror film at the remote station which has since been rocked by allegations of a death threat, assault and sexual harassment. One member of the nine-person ...
Meet The Antarctica Research Crew Trapped With "Violent" Colleague
A team of South African scientists expected to work together for months in a remote Antarctic research station was left ...