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In September, 1976, an American multi-millionaire adventurer with experience exploring the polar regions and climbing in the Himalayas, along with a group of other male and female like-minded adventurers and explorers, and some refugees volunteering to tag along (totalling about 60 people), sets out from Argentina on a large private ship, bound for Antarctica.

The group of colonists anchor the ship on a low-ice portion of the coast near the Ross Ice Shelf and treks inland, with the help of pack-animals, the supplies of the colony. They arrive at the Onyx River, about midway between Wright Galcier and Lake Vanda. Carrying:

-The ingrediants for making bricks of concrete, to be poured with insulating hemp fibers, and tools for increasing the supply of materials by carving the local stone into bricks.
-The ingredients for mortar.
-Large supplies of insulating clothing.
-Food supplies to last for one year.
-Sheep and goats to provide food, milk and (from the sheep) wool to make more insulation and warm clothing.
-A large supply of seeds, and the materials with which to build several greenhouses.
-Fuel (mostly Natural Gas and Kerosene) to last for one year.
-Vertical Axis Wind Turbines to be attached to the sides of buildings and supplement power supply.
-Photovoltaic Cells to be affixed to the roofs of buildings.
-Stirling Engines for use in Concentrated Solar Power, and power generation in winter, fueled by biomass specially grown in the greenhouses, human and animal waste, and algal blooms harvested from the Onyx River in the summer.
-Materials for building a small dam on the Onyx.
-Cold water crabs and fish to experiment with filling the reservoir created by the dam.
-Batteries for storage of elecricity during winter.
-Sunlamps with which to grow some plants during winter to supplement livestock feed.
-Large stores of medical supplies to last for an indefinate time.

Could this kind of preparation have a shot at establishing a self-sustaining colony?
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