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ELI5: Why are there towns in the Arctic Circle but there are no permanent settlements in Antarctica?
gpt
I think what it comes down to is that the land in the Arctic Circle is actually clustered around the southern edge of it--there's no land in the middle, where it's coldest. Antarctica is entirely the opposite, almost all the land that you could reasonably live on is around the pole and is thus very cold indeed.