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When the Last Plane Leaves: Nine Months in the Service of Science at Concordia Station, Antarctica
Nine months of total isolation at Concordia Station, Antarctica By Gabriele Carugati, Station Leader at Concordia, deep in the East Antarctic Plateau I watch the Basler take off and keep following it until it disappears from sight. Then I turn around and walk back towards the station, and at that exact moment I really understand what isolation means. From that moment on, for about nine months, no new people or supplies will arrive at Concordia. What we have available is what
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