Antarctica WhatsApp Groups

There is no polite way to say this, so we'll just say it. Antarctica has no permanent residents, no cities, and no local WhatsApp groups in the normal sense. What exists instead is a small and very unusual collection of chats, and this page collects whatever turns up. Most Antarctica groups belong to expedition staff who work on cruise ships during the November to March season. A second type comes from researchers rotating through the science stations. The rest are travelers and photographers chasing the trip of a lifetime. Their groups handle shift changes and landing schedules, plus a lot of very cold jokes. If you are heading south from Ushuaia, the cruise departure city in Argentina, a passenger group is honestly handy. People coordinate excursions and swap pictures of penguins that the rest of the world will never believe were taken on a phone. Staff groups also circulate season job openings, which is how a lot of people end up working down there in the first place. Researchers come from programs in the United States, Chile, Argentina, Britain and other countries, and their chats are usually private to each station. Those rarely go public, so don't expect to join a research base group from a directory link. What we can promise is that whatever is listed on this page was live when we checked it. Dead links get removed. If a penguin fan group or a polar trivia chat shows up, it lands here. Bookmark it if you like. Antarctica groups are rare, which makes them a bit special, and the page updates whenever something new floats by.