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The children who live on Chile’s Eduardo Frei Montalva Air Force Base are pawns in a great game in the Antarctic that they can but dimly understand.
The cluster of snowbound cabins, a 2½hour flight from the tip of South America to the bottom of the world, is home to a permanent population of eighty that includes ten married couples with a total of 12 children, aged 1 to 17. Residents describe the remote outpost as a colonia.
“It’s strange and difficult but it’s super-beautiful,” said Alumna Jofré, 12, whose father is chief of operations at the ice-covered airfield. “We have had amazingly beautiful experiences. We ski and snowboard and sledge.””*
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