I'm expecting to hear any day now that McMurdo Station scientists have the largest carbon footprint of any community on Earth, and this fact was discovered only now.

Mac Town is an airbase LARPing as a research station, because treaties. Or so I have been told, with due allowance for rhetorical exaggeration.

Apparently the "research station" bit is more real than I thought. They're certainly not under military "discipline". Well done those men!