There are strange things done in the midnight sun – Robert Service
A member of a South African research team on a remote Antarctic base has accused a colleague of physical assault and making a death threat, pleading for “immediate action” to be taken.
The accusations were made in an email sent from the base that was shared with the South African newspaper the Sunday Times.
The person making the allegations said they feared for their own and their colleagues’ safety at South Africa’s Sanae IV research base, demanding “immediate action”, the newspaper reported, quoting an email it said was sent last month.
South Africa’s environment minister, Dion George, whose department manages the country’s Antarctic programme, confirmed that an assault had taken place and that he was “considering options”, without specifying what these were.
It makes me wonder why this hasn’t happened more often (but during Southern Hemisphere winters). Being stuck together in such close circumstances—even without a thawed alien attacking them—has to grate on each others nerves a bit.