Sick South Pole Workers Evacuated To Chile

Two researchers who fell ill while working at the US station at the South Pole have been evacuated safely in a small aircraft. The National Science Foundation (NSF) said the two people - a man and a woman - arrived on Wednesday night in Punta Arenas, Chile, after travelling from the Amundsen-Scott station. The NSF said they were seasonal employees of Lockheed Martin, with is the prime contractor for operations and research support for the foundation's Antarctic programme.