ANTARCTICA: How a Few Thousand People Survive the Coldest Place on Earth | 4K Documentary

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In July 1983, a thermometer on the high Antarctic plateau fell to minus 89.2 degrees Celsius, the lowest temperature ever recorded on the surface of the Earth. This is a continent with no native population, no government, and almost no liquid water, yet at the height of summer around 5,000 people live and work here, a number that drops to barely 1,000 through the long, sunless winter. Antarctica holds ninety percent of the planet's ice and most of its fresh water, and for eight months of the year, no aircraft can reach the people sealed inside its stations.

In this documentary, discover how a rotating community of scientists, cooks, doctors and engineers survives the most extreme environment on the planet: the emperor penguins that breed in the winter dark, the single tiny insect that is the only one native to the continent, the heroic age of Scott and Shackleton, the whaling era that emptied the Southern Ocean, and the treaty that made Antarctica the one place on Earth that no nation owns.

Take a breath, and stay a while.

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