Experience: I was a bartender in Antarctica | Life and style | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/10/experience-bartender-in-antarctica
It was pretty much a given that anyone who had applied for a job on the base was trying to escape something. In Alcoholics Anonymous parlance, it's known as "pulling a geographic". The hope is that by being somewhere else, your existing problems won't apply any more. Sometimes that's true, but I saw a lot of people at the end of the world with nowhere left to run.