Antarctica: The Edge of the Earth
Check my other channel Biographics! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ It’s the land at the edge of the world. A howling emptiness of jagged mountains, broken icebergs, and endless snow. It’s a song of ice and, well, more ice. A land that’s the coldest, driest, windiest, and most uninhabitable of anywhere on Earth. Those who went there knew it as the Great White Silence, the Southern Land, the end of the world. But you know it by its far more ancient name: Antarctica. → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw?sub_confirmation=1 Our sister channels: Biographics - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ TopTenz - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Morris M. Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Source/Further reading: (In our Time): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ss2th https://www.britannica.com/place/Antarctica/History Gondwana: https://www.britannica.com/place/Gondwana-supercontinent Scott of the Arctic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/scott_of_antarctic.shtml https://mashable.com/2017/01/29/terra-nova-expedition/?europe=true Discovery expedition: https://www.rrsdiscovery.com/exploration-article/the-story/ Glossopteris indica discovery: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-15384729 Antarctic Treaty: https://www.ats.aq/e/ats.htm http://www.antarctica.gov.au/law-and-treaty/history Operation Highjump: https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/operation-highjump-18223476/ Carsten Borchgrevink: https://www.south-pole.com/p0000087.htm Extracts from his book: https://archive.org/stream/FirstonAntarcti00Borc#page/246/mode/2up Alexander von Tunzelmann: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/first-landing-antarctica (Rime of the Ancient Mariner): https://discoveringantarctica.org.uk/science-and-exploration/journey-south/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner/
