June 13, 2024
To strengthen its claim on the continent, in 1984 Chile founded a settlement called Villa Las Estrellas in Antarctica where around 100 people live year-round. Since the nearest major hospital is more than 600 miles away and none of the resident doctors are surgeons, people who move to the settlement must have their appendix removed.
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