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* Downplayed in the survival game ''VideoGame/NearDeath'', in which an Antarctic pilot makes an emergency landing near a remote research station, only to discover it was abandoned and decommissioned months ago. The game has no supernatural threats, but the abandoned outpost is still quite creepy, and without power, light, or heat, the danger of quick death from the cold is an omnipresent threat.

-->--'''William Dyer''', ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness''

* The 2003 ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'' series kicks off with an evil clone of the Venom symbiote massacring and escaping from the Northern Canadian research station that was studying it. It makes its way to a nearby radar base, jumping from host to host as it looks for one that will last long enough to bring it to civilization.

* In ''VideoGame/BlackSnow'', your player character John Matsuda is an IT specialist being chugged out to the Amaluuk Research Station in Greenland with several other "IT specialists" to investigate why the station's gone dark a week ago. What's supposed to be a routine service leaves all of your coworkers separated, dead, or worse, and, as nightfall and below-zero temperatures take over the station, leaves you to find out what's happened.

* Downplayed in the survival game ''VideoGame/NearDeath'', in which an Antarctic pilot makes an emergency landing near a remote research station, only to discover it was abandoned and decommissioned months ago. The game has no supernatural threats, but the abandoned outpost is still quite creepy, and without power, light, or heat the danger of quick death from the cold is an omnipresent threat.

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* Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest: The island featured in V8 has one of these. It was created in a joint effort by the US and Norwegian governments back in 1982, comprising of five different building used by the staff stationed there. [[AbandonedArea Naturally it is abandoned by the start of the game due]] to cuts in funding, but it is still in good condition despite languishing in the elements for years.
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* In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters'', the secret monster-monitoring organization Monarch maintain bases all over the world, mostly in places where {{kaiju}} are known to be in hibernation. The one that keeps them the most nervous is Outpost 32, in Antarctica, where [[spoiler:an unidentified creature, dubbed "Monster Zero", is frozen in the ice -- actually the film's BigBad, King Ghidorah.]] As a fun bit of trivia, Outpost 32's designation is a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheThing1982'''s Outpost 31. By ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' (set five years later), the station has been repurposed to study the "Vile Vortex", an anomalous gravitational rift in the Earth's crust leading into the monster-filled HollowWorld. The close proximity between Ghidorah and the vortex are speculated to be more than coincidental in the novelization.

A classic setting for mystery and horror stories. A remote lab or research station out in the far [[GrimUpNorth north]] or [[MysteriousAntarctica south]] surrounded by ice, snow, and more ice.

It has several key attributes:
# Going outside without proper clothes is [[HostileWeather likely to kill you]]. Even with parkas, you can't be outside for long.

# As a research station, you can find all sorts of specialized equipment around. If you're trying to solve problems, the [[DownInTheDumps decades of accumulated surplus gear and tools]] makes {{MacGyvering}} feasible.
# On the other hand, as a research/exploration facility in a very cold climate, you can find even more specialized equipment around (flamethrowers, dynamite), so some researcher has gone AxCrazy, they have more ImprovisedWeapon options.

* Creator/HPLovecraft’s ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' features a research camp set up by Miskatonic University’s Professor Lake, for the purposes of researching the area’s geological formations. By the time his peers reach the camp, Lake and his compatriots have been brutally massacred by [[spoiler:the biological specimens they had discovered, known to them as Elder Things]].