Question: Does your building move incase the ice breaks??

Beth Healey answered on 13 Oct 2015:

Good morning! This is Adrianos from Greece, I am Beth’s predecessor as a research doctor for the European Space Agency in Antarctica and I am filling in for her today due to connectivity problems over there. I have also spent a year at Concordia Station and to respond to your question, no, sadly our research base cannot move, it is a permanent construction. The good thing is that we don’t expect to ever need to move the building because our Base lies atop 3200 meters of ice, on an Antarctic plateau at the middle of the continent. In such environments there is very little geological or glacier change, so the ice won’t really break at this location. We might face other difficulties (the worst can be fire) but rather than moving the building we have a second, smaller one at a safe distance to use for survival in that case!