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Antarctica is unique in that humans only began living there at the beginning of the twentieth century, and are still transient visitors with no “permanent civilization” present in the accepted sense. Those in the early Antarctic groups saw parallels between Antarctica and space. Such is reflected in an entry in Edward Wilson’s diary for the 22 May, 1902 (Wilson 1966):
“It was a wonderful night … Sounds carried an immense distance. The stillness was almost uncanny. One could imagine oneself in another dead planet. I could easily imagine we were standing not on the Earth but on the Moon’s surface. Everything was so still and dead and cold and unearthly.”
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Lugg, D.J. (1994). Antarctica as a Space Laboratory. In: Hempel, G. (eds) Antarctic Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78711-9_15
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