Fuel
Since the only trees in Antarctica are in fossil form, there
is not a scrap of wood for burning, and the only petroleum
sources lie deep beneath ice sheets or the seafloor. Your only
chance of obtaining fuel is to kill a seal, whose blubber
contains fat and oils. A square foot of seal blubber will burn
for several hours, though it generates copious amounts of
oily, sooty smoke. You don't need to shelter blubber fires,
however, because they thrive in wind (the stronger the
better), and once you've burned your blubber, you can eat the
cinders.
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