Can people live in Antarctica?

Question

Like actually be born and raised there? Or is it too cold??

Answer 1

Although Antarctica has no permanent residents, a number of governments maintain permanent research stations throughout the continent. The population of people doing and supporting science on the continent and its nearby islands varies from approximately 4000 in summer to 1000 in winter. Many of the stations are staffed around the year.

The first semi-permanent inhabitants of regions near Antarctica (areas situated south of the Antarctic Convergence) were English and American sealers who used to spend a year or more on South Georgia, from 1786 onward. During the whaling era, which lasted until 1966, the population of that island varied from over 1000 in the summer (over 2000 in some years) to some 200 in the winter. Most of the whalers were Norwegian, with an increasing proportion of Britons. The settlements included Grytviken, Leith Harbour, King Edward Point, Stromness, Husvik, Prince Olav Harbour, Ocean Harbour and Godthul. Managers and other senior officers of the whaling stations often lived together with their families. Among them was the founder of Grytviken, Captain Carl Anton Larsen, a prominent Norwegian whaler and explorer who adopted British citizenship in 1910, and his family.

The first child born in the southern polar region was Norwegian girl Solveig Gunbjörg Jacobsen, born in Grytviken on 8 October 1913, and her birth registered by the resident British Magistrate of South Georgia. She was a daughter of Fridthjof Jacobsen, the assistant manager of the whaling station, and of Klara Olette Jacobsen. Jacobsen arrived on the island in 1904 to become the manager of Grytviken, serving from 1914 to 1921; two of his children were born on the island.[23]

Emilio Marcos Palma was the first person born on the Antarctic mainland, at Base Esperanza in 1978, his parents being sent there along with seven other families by the Argentinean government to determine if family life was suitable in the continent. In 1986, Juan Pablo Camacho was born at the Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva Base, becoming the first Chilean born in Antarctica. Several bases are now home to families with children attending schools at the station.[24]

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Answer 2

I think a baby was born in Antarctica a few years ago.

Ok, a long time ago.

First woman to give birth in Antarctica: The wife of chief officer at Argentina's Esperanza Base on Jan. 7, 1978.

Answer 3

No, there are no polar bears that exist in Antarctica and never will be because they are still "land" animals. They live in the Arctic because they came from land and migrating to the Antarctica would be, well, pretty much impossible! Antarctica is an island continent tens and thousands of miles away on the opposite side of the planet from the arctic.

Answer 4

I have never heard of anyone being born there, or living there except on a limited-time basis. Antarctica does not have a lot of useful natural resources, so everything has to be brought in, which makes it uneconomical to live there unless you are part of a research project.

Answer 5

Changing my answer altogether. I jsut googled "life in Antarctica" and discovered that the only life native to antarctica are microscopic invertebrates and humans involved in research spend no more than one year there.

Answer 6

Not with any self sufficiency. If you are in Antarctica you a reliant upon the outside world to provide for all your needs except frostbite.

Answer 7

I cannot tell you if somebody has been born there. We have researchers living there around the year right now, but I bet most of them spend a year or so there, then come back home. It is very costly to keep somebody in antartica.

Answer 8

With current technologies, it is possible. And the people must be constantly being supplied by outside world.

And people living over there is like living in prison nine months a year.

Answer 9

yes....but here's the rub...you'd be living off penguin meat and fish...very little vegetable matter (seaweed maybe?)

I think it's doable...not pleasant...but doable

I assume you mean if it could've been nhabitted by a culture like the vikings or something

people live there now but they bring everything with them

shelter would pose issues but thats what youve got igloos for...

Answer 10

No one could live there without outside help. All food, fuel, building materials, etc. have to be shipped in. There's almost nothing there you could live off of for long.