Helen Burchell
BBC News, Cambridgeshire
If you were guaranteed a white Christmas, but it meant working thousands of miles away from your family and friends in a freezing wilderness, would you relish the opportunity?
This is what the festive season holds for the hundreds of scientists, researchers and support staff living at remote stations in Antarctica this year.
Almost 300 members of the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are spending Christmas at five research stations and on board the vessel, the Harwich-based RRS Sir David Attenborough.
Although it is the busiest time of the year (with almost 24 hours of sunlight), many, who are not living in a tent doing field research, find the time to make decorations, secret Santa gifts and enjoy a meal or festive film together.
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Photo/The British Antarctic Survey ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, is deployed to the Antarctic this Christmas/BBC News
