On Getting Drunk in Antarctica

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Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, writes about workers in Antartica and the relationship between isolation, frigid cold, darkness, and drinking:

A bored, trapped, and cold population naturally gave rise to a bar. Club 90 South was a simple, wood-paneled joint with a hole in the wall opening up to the outside, where the bartenders would put the Jagermeister to keep it chilled. Massive pallets of beer, wine, and liquor were flown in with the winter crew, and they prayed it would last until them all nine months.