Psychologists in touch with Antarctic base after assault allegation, South Africa confirms

Ministers also investigating sexual harassment claim at country's isolated Sanae IV research station

Psychologists are in constant" contact with a South African science team isolated for months at a base in Antarctica after physical assault and sexual harassment allegations were made, a government minister has said.

The environment minister, Dion George, whose department manages the country's Antarctic programme, confirmed to the Guardian that psychologists and other experts were in direct and constant" communication with the nine-member research team.