We are not alone

Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base on Winter Island off the Antarctic Peninsula. 
They win the prize for my favorite card.  Mainly climate research.  A tourist site as well.
(12 people year round)

Conditions:  Temperature 36°F, clear, no wind.  Population = 816

Every so often, travelers come through McMurdo from other Antarctic Stations.  I've seen French, Italians and South Koreans hanging out by the hand-washing stations outside the galley--the usual McMurdo meeting place.

Just to remind you, I've posted the map of the stations below.  Many bases/camps are open only in the summer. About 40 bases densely cluster above the Antarctic Circle on the warmer Antarctic Peninsula or its adjacent islands.  There, neither day nor night ever disappears completely and fauna and even flora abound.  The remaining bases are scattered about the continent, mostly in Eastern Antarctica (we are at the border between East and West).

Although we see little of each other, each year, the bases compete in the Winter film festival (very funny) and send each other Season's Greeting cards.  Below are the cards McMurdo has received so you can see the people of the ice.

Australia's Davis Station on the opposite side of the continent from us.  They do
mainly microbiologic research but also upper atmospheric physics.
(18 winter, 120 summer)

Poland's Henryk Arctowski Station on the Antarctic Peninsula.  Biology, ecology
oceanography, meteorology and geology. Popular with tourists.
(up to 45 people, year round)

France-Italy collaborative Concordia Station.   Located on the Antarctic Plateau, it's extremely cold like the Pole.
They conduct research in human biology, glaciology, astronomy and climate.
(15 winter, 50 summer)

Italy's Zucchelli Station, quite close to us across the Ross Sea.
(up to 90 people in the summer)

Argentina's Belgrano Base, one of 13 Argentinian bases.  They do meteorology, astronomy, geology research.
Argentina is the one country that has had families at their bases.
At their Peninsula Base, Esperanza, at least 8 children have been born--the only native Antarcticans.
(10-20 people year round)

*Spanish Carlini Base on the Antarctic Peninsula.  Biology, ecology and geology research.
(20 winter, 60 summer)

Australia's Casey Station due south of Perth.  Geology, marine biology.
(18 winter, 150 summer)

British Halley Research Station, a movable station on skis on the Brunt Ice Shelf.  Really neat station.
 Meteorologic research.
(up to 32 people in summer only)

US Amundsen-Scott Base.   Astrophysics, physics, astronomy.
(45 winter, 150 summer)

Australia's Mawson Station in Eastern Australia,  Physical sciences,
seabird research, hydrographic research.
(18 winter, 120 summer)

China's Great Wall Station on the Antarctic Peninsula
(14 winter, up to 40 summer)

France's Alfred Faure Station on the Crozet Islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean.
Meteorological, biological and geological resaerch with geomagnetic observatory.
(15 winter, 60 summer)

British Rothera Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, a close neighbor of US Palmer Station.
Ocean biology and meteorologic research
(22 winter, 100 summer).

British Signy Research Station on Signy Island off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Ocean biology.
(10 people summer only)

Russia has five permanent stations in Antarctica with about 200 people. But if they told us about them,
they would have to kill us.

Germany's Neumayer Station on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf.  A really cool, movable (up and down, not lateral)
station and a nice, website, too.  Meteorology, astrophysics and atmospheric chemistry.
(9 winter, 50 summer)

India's  Bharati Research Station, one of the newest on the continent (2012).  Near Davis Station.
 Oceanographic research and a big satellite facility.
(40 to 70 people)