McMurdo Station Scandal: Man Charged With Assaulting Woman Sent to ‘Protect’ Scientific Team on Remote Antarctic Ice Field
The largest community in Antarctica, McMurdo Station, is a United States Antarctic research station on the shore of McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica.
‘Mac-Town’, houses up to 1,200 residents, and is a hub for American activities on the ‘snow desert’ – and, as we now know, a place plagued by drunkenness, violence, sexual assault and rape.
A series of reports by Associated Press showed a pattern of abuse and cover up in the station, and followed the reaction of the authorities, the stopping of the selling of alcohol in bars and cafeterias, and recently, the news that investigators are being sent to probe the situation.
The new developments show that a man accused of physically assaulting a woman at the station was subsequently sent to a remote ice field to protecting the safety of a professor and three young graduate students.
