A Frozen Graveyard: The Sad Tales of Antarctica's Deaths

BBC ^ | September 14, 2018 | Martha Henriques

[SunkenCiv]

subtitled, "Beneath layers of snow and ice on the world's coldest continent, there may be hundreds of people buried forever. Martha Henriques investigates their stories."

Deception Island | Antarctica | Atlas Obscura | Tourists enjoy a warm volcanic bath Wikimedia (Wikicommons)

[SunkenCiv]

Cousteau and company went to Antarctica and filmed there, including at the abandoned Chilean base (it had been destroyed by volcanic eruptions in 1967) on Deception Island. I confess, I didn't read this whole thing, but there appear to be only three examples, and Costeau showed the Chilean cemetery in that show.

[Red Badger]

I’d imagine it’s very chilly in Antarctica .....................

[cuban leaf]

...there may be hundreds of people buried forever...

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And a lot more than that in the graveyards around the world. The whole point is that they are expected to be buried “forever”.

[SunkenCiv]

some YouTubes about Deception Island, including one by some Flat Earth flathead.

http://www.google.com/search?q=deception+island+site:youtube.com

[Mercat]

“She was an indigenous person from southern Chile, 1,000km (620 miles) away. ”

I don’t understand how she can indigenous AND be hundreds of miles from home at the same time.

[dainbramaged]

Joshua Slocum wrote about the Yahgan Indians of Tierra del Fuego in his book "Sailing Alone Around the World" (1900). He was warned they were dangerous so he sprinkled tacks on the deck of his sloop as a burglar alarm. It worked.
He also learned not to eat green plums and cheese at the same setting.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

I wonder why, if the climate hysterics are to be taken so seriously, nobody’s talking about colonizing Antarctica (not to mention the barely populated Arctic and sub-Arctic regions as well). An entire continent with almost nobody on it, yet the temperate and tropical parts of the world are bursting at the seams. There’s obviously plenty of water, soon to be melting . . .

[Bonemaker]

And who were these “sealers”? Were they like “closers” at shyster auto dealerships?

[Big Red Badger]

Watched “March of the Penguins”
Yesterday,,,
That was Antarctica!

[steve8714]

Trump’s fault

[Ken Regis]

In the Antarctic, we called that area the “Banana Belt”

[Ken Regis]

I skied there.

[SunkenCiv]

One problem it has, it's miserably, unremittingly cold, even during the months it spends in 24 hour sunshine. Geothermal energy (from at least one volcano) might make a city-sized settlement pretty comfortably warm, and well-lit (from the electrical generation). But you'd want to have a backup plan (like a giant coal-burning pwer plant and six to eight months of coal supply, since delivery of coal would be impractical for a good chunk of the year), and there'd be no economic life for the place, unless Amazon opened a headquarters there. Maybe sell units to pensioners...

[SunkenCiv]

Because they don't wanna say "indian", so they use "indigenous", meaning indegous to Chile.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Whoa! That’s extremely cool!

[SunkenCiv]

They were an early NFL team which sucked.

[SunkenCiv]

8 Ball Bunny"

[SunkenCiv]

I’m not sure I’d eat green plums alone, either.

https://www.livestrong.com/article/549722-will-green-plums-hurt-your-stomach/

[Big Red Badger]

A more Viable settlement
Than the Moon or Mars,
But still not A Hawaiian VaCa!