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Video: Polar Attraction Intro
What is it about the cold vast whiteness at the ends of our earth – for centuries humans have been fascinated with the polar environments. But to us in the sunbaked country they seem the most inhospitable places on the planet. Adventurers and explorers have risked and often lost their lives to unravel the mysteries of the poles, yet many secrets still remain. What is it that draws people to them? Is there a force; a magnetism that calls?
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Images derived from:
Flying Penguin from the Antarctic Photo Library in the public domain
The Southern Party
Blue hole is a work by the National Science Foundation under public domain
Arctowski image in the public domain
Armillary sphere in the public domain
CaveAC from the Antarctic Photo Library in the public domain
Comb setae of antarctic krill by Uwe Kils
Whale tail by Terry Howard
All other images sourced from Margot Foster and the expeditioners aboard the scientific research vessel the Aurora Australis which embarked on a voyage to the Southern Ocean on 16 December 2007.
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