appendix-antarctica

id: title: The Icy Village Where You Must Remove Your Appendix slug: appendix-antarctica date: 2025-07-01 9:09:00 AM format: Narrative url: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180810-villas-las-estrellas-antarctica-base-residents-surgery duration:

A settlement in Antarctica is so remote and isolated, that you can’t still have your appendix and live there because the nearest hospital is so hard to get to that a burst appendix will kill you.