As an aside, there is a public bar at Vernadsky Station in the Argentine islands just off the Antarctic peninsula. It was built back when it was Faraday Station

As an aside, there is a public bar at Vernadsky Station in the Argentine islands just off the Antarctic peninsula. It was built back when it was Faraday Station, with a shipment of lumber that was supposed to be for a new pier. All other bars in the Antarctic only serve alcohol to base staff, as they import their stocks, and they’re limited. Understandable. They’ll still happily sell you a coffee at McMurdo, but you’re SOL for a drink unless you BYOB. The drinks menu at Vernadsky is somewhat limited, offering Zamagonka or Samogonka, depending on how you want to spell it - the guys there make it using their potato rations, and it’ll knock your socks off. So yeah, if you ever find yourself in that neck of the woods, stop on by, have a few, shoot some pool, admire the pound coin embedded in the bar for which the station was sold to Ukraine, chat gravity waves and atmospheric phenomena with the researchers, and then go hang out with the penguins.