South Pole MIDWINTER CELEBRATIONS!!
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- On Saturday, June 22, 2019, the entire Antarctic continent celebrated the one holiday that every station here celebrates together - MidWinter. Midwinter Dinners and Parties have been around for over a hundred years, dating all the way back to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and has been a tradition ever since. This year at the South Pole, we had a particularly good celebration full of fancy drinks, samples of Old Antarctic Explorer food, midwinter boxes, and an incredible dinner. So if you want to see everything from the set up to the end of the dinner, stay right on this page! 🙌☺️
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I am currently living and working at the South Pole Station through the United States Antarctic Program. I am not down here as a filmmaker or photographer, but instead work in the Logistics and Supply department. All of these videos are being made during my free time and not during working hours. We are very busy down here keeping the station running at maximum efficiency, but I have managed to find some free time to make these short movies!
It's just amazing to me that in the middle of a continent which is supposedly uninhabited, you can have a large building complex where people can party in their shirt sleeves, living a modern lifestyle.
This is fascinating, it looks like any office party at any random office building. You completely forget that just on the other side of those walls is one of the most inhospitable places on earth, where you will die in minutes without proper protection.
But I imagine thats the whole point of social gatherings like this, that they are quite necessary for morale in a place like that :)
I am loving living vicariously through you. Your life down there really looks interesting and fun. Happy Mid-Winter!!
Ahh thank you! I’m so glad you’re enjoying it 😊😊 thank you!!
OMG that menu looks amazing! Can't believe you get to eat that at the South Pole of all places. I bet Amundsen would have killed for that lol.
I like how they stand around the table and MAKE THE FOOD GOOD LOL
Damn, Scallop's and Calamari!, You Guy's are spoiled these day's, but it's nice to see that Your all taken care of, I wish We had food like that, when I wintered there! ♥
Smoked ice, an Antarctic delicacy
Neff and I wintered together in winter 2016. What a nostalgia trip.
You are living the dream. Wish I could go back in time. Instead of wasting it I would have gone on an adventure
My whole life has been an adventure. Merchant Seamen then contractor in Afghanistan now Iraq. It’s never to late I’m 65
Great video 👍🏼 it really must be an incredible experience, living down there ❄️
Thank you so much!! And yeah, it really is pretty special ☺️☺️
Hey Victor, looking so dapper there in your suit. Happy midwinter!!! It's great that everyone comes together for a celebration like this for midwinter, which is an exciting time of year where you're at. The menu looked yummy. The drink, especially with the smoked ice cube, interesting. I loved the special table and food prepared in honor of the explorers so long ago, which would have been a big feast for them back then, and hearing the story and significance of that specially prepared table. So, midwinter. Does it bring happiness for some, because the sun will be returning? And does it bring sadness for others, because it means that their time there is getting closer now to having to leave that beautiful place? And which is your feeling about midwinter now that the celebration is over? Happy or sad, or a little of both? Can't wait to see what you got in the boxes. Back to wearing your hat and frozen beard-cicles. 90 degrees here and humid as heck here today. Could use some icicles right about now. Stay warm and stay safe. :-)
Ahh thank you so so much! I’m really glad you enjoyed the video and sharing the experience 😊 But yeah, it really is a special day and everyone has an amazing time ❤️
But yeah, as far as how it makes people feel, it’s definitely mixed! Robert, the astronomer who has been here for 15 winters, is on his last this time around, and I think he’s sad that it’s halfway over. Personally, I’m pretty excited! It’s been a great winter and there is more great stuff to come, but I’m also really pumped to get back to the real world! I have a lot of exciting things coming up ☺️
Once again, thank you so much!! 😊
Dang it! I'm sorry I spelled your name wrong Viktor.
Ahh no worries whatsoever! Happens all the time 😊😊
3:45 the guy in shorts....found the Canadian.
Your videos make me want to apply to the US antarctic program. This reminds me so much of working staff on a scout reservation, but on mega steroids.
As the video started, I jumped..... South African flag!! Good to see it so far south.
I remember the topside parties at sea with scientists and crew working for a well known oceanographic institution based in the north east United States. Fond memories and travels. We did the Arctic cruise that voyage!
A very interesting video. Thanks for posting. I would love to visit Antarctica (as a tourist) someday.
We had this same tradition aboard nuclear ballistic submarines in the US Navy (called "half-way night", midway through a deterrent patrol) although we had steak and lobster (who ever heard of leg of lamb & lobster?).
This is beyond great to watch!
just subscribed! this was a very neat video! def liked, shared and subscribed!
Wow so this like two woman among a crowd of bearded pole nerds....Winter must be loooong for them
Hope you post your next video soon. Dying to know what was in the boxes. Warm fourth of july wishes to you my friend. ( even though it's really 1:40 a.m. on july 6th right now).
Ahh thank you so much!! And I saw that you saw the box video 😊😊
Fun celebrations down there! Enjoy and thanks for sharing!!
Yeah! It was a super great time! I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thank you 😊
Happy Midwinter. And great video as always. You rocked the man-bun Bro!
Thank you and thank you!! 😊😊
And I’m glad you liked it 🤣🤣 I’m still not sure what I think about it 😝
lamb chops and beef !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am binging all these over the last week and am super fascinated. I would totally volunteer for this duty except I don't think there is a lot of call for 60 year old govt. managers!
The guy that runs this channel looks identical to a friend I had in the navy and it trips me out lol
leg of lamb and lobster tail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think we had a lot of rabbit from New Zealand when I was in McMurdo in 1971.
that dried fish called "taranka" or "wobla", and extrimely good, especially enjoying with your beer. pure northern food. there different types of fishes so it tastes differently, but some are literally a delicacy and cost more than a prime steak.
t. a Russian
It looks like Antarctica makes every man stop shaving and knowing it's cold in there tells me why.
Great culture
Great video Viktor, but it needs more Dave!
Hahahaha I'll keep that in mind 😜 Thank you so much though!! ☺️
Is midwinter dinner kinda like antartic Thanksgiving?
Seeing the Belgian flag, I have a question, is the station only manned by US personnel?
is it just maintenance and support staff in the winter or are there some scientists there?
Fine dining right there.
Absolutely!! Especially when you consider where we are during this time!
what does "LGN" mean on the 2020 pole marker?
Hopefully they have a huge supply of moisturizing lotion!
No need for razors, lol. How wonderful to be free of societal rules. Men don’t have to shave, and need do women. No one knows what is growing under the long underwear! 😂😂😂😂😂
where did you get the ice? :P
What info couldn’t be released until Jan 2020? Time traveler here from oct 2020
The location of the geographic south pole
The look of the new Geographic Pole Marker. Those are not publicly available until New Years Day.
What are the age ranges of people work there? What’s the percentage of men and women?
Age range is pretty wide. I think the youngest we had was like 22 and the oldest was late 60s?
And the percentage of men to women isn’t great at Pole during the winter. We had 37 men and 5 women. Sadly that’s pretty common. However, McMurdo summers are a lot more evenly split!
@@GoneVenturing Don't aim for equal outcome, aim for equal opportunity.
There are a lot more men in jail than women. Is it because we discriminate against men, or is it because men and women make different choices?
@@GoneVenturingsounds like the summer can be promiscuous! 😂
This is at McMurdo?
No, amundsen scott south pole
Tarzan say . Man bun bad . Shave head . Tarzan out .
Hahah thanks 🙃
They need to recruit more women to work in Antarctica.
What a joke, the summer holiday camping.
Your parents are disappointed in you