7 Eye-Popping Facts About Living in Antarctica

6. People not only work but also have fun there.

Station workers love interesting leisure time: researchers give tours of their laboratories, play basketball on the snow, and love dancing and costume parties. Sometimes the team uses video calls to answer school and college students’ questions, on Christmas they love to make a call to the president of Italy via Skype.

Many of them try to speak with foreign colleagues and practice their foreign language skills since the team there is truly international and consists of Swiss, French, Italian, English, and Russian people.