Many supplies for Antarctic research stations need to be brought in by plane. The costs of keeping the stations running and their crews fed and housed are as extreme as the environment itself. Photo: Nasa/Justin Miller/Indiana University/Flickr
It's not only the physical challenges but also the mental side of living in Antarctica that would make a permanent human settlement there difficult.
On Oct 25, 1991, I made my first trip to the US’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. I vividly remember landing on the ice runway onboard a ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules transport.
