In the middle of Antarctica, where temperatures drop to below forty degrees below zero in the winter and bitterly freezing winds, residents of the village practiced Via Las Estreas lost in the desert of ice, totaling 64 people, their lives normally.
This village adjacent to the base, "Eduardo Fraa" Chilean Veldes in the peninsula, in the South Shetland Islands. It is about ten houses or slightly more, and the bank, and shop, and a sports club, and a small school for children from six residents of the village.
Most of the villagers are from the families of military personnel at the air base nearby, and something Vxia accustomed to life in this place next to the harsh Arctic animals like penguins.
Says Jose Rosales Carrilan headmaster and teacher where "life here enjoyable Jadda..osab what we are facing is when we are forced to stay at home for several days, in the past winter, for example, did not get out of our homes for eight days because of wind and snow."
And requires to live in this village organized an arbitrator, Valmottagr not only opens its doors twice a week, and displays a wide variety of goods. Therefore, should the population to attend supplies from their own country and that Akhoznoha, especially personal hygiene items and frozen foods.
Rosales and resides in this village with his wife, who also operates a school, and two children, two years ago.
Qian, a city located 450 kilometers from the Chilean capital Santiago.oachtfatt things exactly when this man and his family, in the heat Qian up to 38 degrees in the summer, but in their new village in the Antarctic winter temperature is up to forty below zero
But he shows great happiness, saying "life here and complacent, do not steal and do not jam Ser..onry our children more than it was before we came here." This place has become a magnet for a number of Chileans, despite the harsh environment, and because the teaching in this village generates Mdjula equivalent to five times the salary of Education in Chile.
Says Maria Cristina Hernandez, "the person should be subject to competition at the level of the country, and where there are a number of specifications." And explains, "The first condition to be two persons teachers, and married, because they will share the house only dedicated to this function, and candidates Singles do not accept, as well as the person must be experienced in the education of not less than one year."
Polar established the village school in 1985, and since then studied 290 pupils, are the children of the officers in the Chilean Air Force, and the children of the staff working there. It currently includes six pupils. And Zevina Obaso, is the daughter of an officer, and one small shop vendors in town. She says, "It is a charming place to live in can not be reached by one, which is also a daily challenge because we are forced to wear too thick to get out, and sometimes we can not get out, this is the worst of it here."
In addition to physical temptations, Chileans find attractive in this place, because it is a unique experience different from what Samoa than in their own country, and in the other countries of the world. Of these, Francisco Fuentes, 62, who runs the only bank worker in the village, which has been married for 37 years and has two sons, but he left his family and came to Via Las Estreas to become the only employee in the banking sector in the South Pole, which opens his bank every day in front of his customers eightieth residents in the village or working in the Chilean Antarctic bases, allowing customers to deposit and withdraw and transfer and even investments.
He says, "What he loved in life here is to fly over the mountains of ice in the helicopter," a win in his bank polar 120% of what was earned in Chile.
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