Seven Cities of Antarctica

2/17/2024

Disney's "People and Places" takes us to the home of over 90% of the world's ice, where we learn a little of the statistics of this vast continent before spending a little time illustrating - with archive - the Amundsen and Scott race to the South Pole. The Norwegian made it home safely, the Britons weren't so fortunate. Now, Winston Hibler gets his book of handy facts out and tells us the polar plateau is 10,000 feet high. No four footed creatures, no insects - just mighty glaciers that break off into mammoth icebergs and tiny droplets of ice that forms on the water like a scum. Talking of might, we see just how effective modern day ice-breakers can be. Their visit to help set up seven bases to house task forces of American scientists charged with learning more about this frozen wildernes