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The Chilean town in Antarctica is suitable for families and offers a variety of attractions, only there is one requirement from the residents: everyone - including children - must undergo surgery to remove their appendix before moving


The city that anyone who wants to live in is required to remove their appendix

This Chilean town in Antarctica is suitable for families and offers a variety of attractions such as skiing, recreation with penguins and observation tours in the polar glow, only it has one requirement from the residents: everyone - including children - must undergo surgery to remove their appendix before moving.

You will not believe what the reason for the excessive demand

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20/01/2022

Thursday, 20 January 2022, 15:19 Updated: 15:21

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The village whose inhabitants must all issue the appendix (@ dr.karanr)

Every move requires leaving things behind and adapting to a new environment, but if you want to move to the next town you will have to leave your addition behind.

Life in this Antarctic town is suitable for families and offers a variety of attractions, but requires anyone interested in living there - including children - to undergo surgery to remove the appendix, the New York Post reports.



Anyone planning to move to the Antarctic outpost Villa Las Asterges, on King George Island (the largest island in the southern Shetland Islands, located 120 km north of the Antarctic coast), needs to prepare for the low temperatures and life in a remote town that includes a total of 100 people.

Although you will find restaurants, a school, a library, a post office, a radio station, a bank and a supermarket - many families consider carefully before thinking about moving there not only because of the frost, but because the new residents require new residents to remove the surgery before moving - and the reason Rather quite logical.

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According to the BBC, the nearest hospital is more than a thousand miles from the northernmost tip of the island, meaning health services in the area are limited. Although there are active medical services in the town, there is no guarantee that there will be a surgeon who can treat appendicitis - which requires urgent surgery. To avoid danger of death, all residents who move there must undergo an appendectomy. The limited options of health services in the place are also the reason why women are asked not to get pregnant during their stay there. In addition, in a season when the temperature drops and can reach as low as minus 47 degrees Celsius, residents are asked to stay in their home otherwise they are likely to freeze to death. "Last winter we could not leave our house for weeks," said Sergio Cubilos, commander of the local air force base.



If the cold, the ban on getting pregnant and the removal of the appendix did not break you - you will know that internet access there is limited to the three computers at school.

That is, here we are broken.

Oh - and dogs are not allowed to be raised there either.

The ban stems from the fear that they may spread infectious diseases to wildlife.

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Despite the restrictive conditions, it must be said, this is one of the few outposts in Antarctica where people live for years - and not just weeks or months.

Most of the residents are researchers and Chilean Air Force or Navy personnel, but often people with long-term contracts bring their entire family with them.

Many people tend to live on the island during the summer, so the sun shines all day long and temperatures reach 2 degrees Celsius.



If you're still interested somehow, Villa Las Astrage's also offers attractions such as skiing, snowmobiling, observation tours of nearby Bellinghausen, where you can watch the aurora borealis and learn about glaciology (ice exploration), and random encounters with penguins - which are quite friendly thanks to the law Hunt them.

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