How cold is it there? Are there people? How did they get there and what are they up to? Are they eating the dogs?

Pretty farkin'. Yes. Mostly ships. Mostly research. Not any more.

But we dive much deeper into Antarctica we get into in this episode, including some truly macabre history and some downright chilly meteorology.

Sources:

All wikipedia this time

Antarctica

Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

Far Eastern Party

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