How many people are there in Antarctica?
I’m not sure about the total number of people; my guess would be about 5000 in summer. Where we are there are about 80 people from New Zealand in summer and 10 in winter. Do people ski or ice-skate in Antarctica? We do lots of skiing and just recently some of us have been ice-skating on an ice pier the Americans were building at their base. How are you going to get away? We fly on air force transport planes; they use the frozen sea ice for a runway. How do you cook your food? At Scott Base we have a full kitchen and a chef to cook for us, when we camp out we use kerosene powered camp cookers. What do you do if one of your snowmobiles breaks down? Initially we try to fix it with the tool kit under the seat, if we can’t we radio back to base for help. How big is Antarctica? It is bigger than Australia or the United States. What sort of fuel does the snowmobile run on? Petrol, with some anti-freeze additives. Are different languages spoken? At different bases they are, lots of different c
