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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.

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Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Morris M.
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris

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Source/Further reading:

(In our Time): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s...
https://www.britannica.com/place/Anta...
Gondwana: https://www.britannica.com/place/Gond...
Scott of the Arctic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
https://mashable.com/2017/01/29/terra...
Discovery expedition: https://www.rrsdiscovery.com/explorat...
Glossopteris indica discovery: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-153...
Antarctic Treaty: https://www.ats.aq/e/ats.htm
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/law-and-...
Operation Highjump: https://www.airspacemag.com/history-o...
Carsten Borchgrevink: https://www.south-pole.com/p0000087.htm
Extracts from his book: https://archive.org/stream/FirstonAnt...
Alexander von Tunzelmann: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo...
(Rime of the Ancient Mariner): https://discoveringantarctica.org.uk/...