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Thus wrote Burrough (1985), a staff reporter of The Wall Street Journal, as a leader to the second of two articles on life in Antarctica. Another report, by Reinhold in the New York Times in 1982, titled “Strife and Despair at South Pole Illuminate Psychology of Isolation,” details a night of violence at South Pole Station. However, the writer qualifies his story: Though an extreme example, that night of violence underscores the powerful mental effects of protracted isolation. And many psychologists believe the unusual nature of Antarctic isolation — in which a small group of scientists and support personnel is confined to a tiny life-sustaining cocoon surrounded by an impenetrable hostile environment that permits no quick escape — may hold lessons for an approaching age of prolonged space travel and space colonization.
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Lugg, D.J. (1991). Current International Human Factors Research in Antarctica. In: Harrison, A.A., Clearwater, Y.A., McKay, C.P. (eds) From Antarctica to Outer Space. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3012-0_5
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