The Inside Story of Life on the SANAE IV Antarctica Base

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Exclusive: For Lodrick Hlungwane, who spent three years at the isolated base, a recent crisis there was disturbing—but not surprising.

For most of the year, South Africa’s SANAE IV research station is one of the most isolated places on Earth: cut off from the rest of the world in the Antarctic for up to 10 months at a time and battered by some of the planet’s harshest weather. Life at the base is tough—and, at times, terrifying.

In late February, crew members sent a desperate SOS message from the station, which sits on a cliff edge 105 miles inland from the ice shelf. They alleged that one of the nine-member team had assaulted and sexually harassed colleagues, made death threats and left them fearing for their lives.

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