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It is summer.

It is midnight.

We are headed south.

Um, uh, we just logged
another run low 10-10 spot.

Chain before coming in.

As they travel south

the men and women in this ship
will be bitterly cold.

Sun will burn their faces

wind will sear them

but they will feel fortunate

to have become part
of a great adventure.

For thousands of years

as human begins spread
across the planet

no one came here.

Antarctica was as remote
as the moon.

Ancient Greeks reasoned
that the world was round

and that there must be
a great southern continent.

They called the stars
above the North Pole

Arktos, the bear

so they named the far Pole
Antarktos.

They imagined a land

of strange beasts
and stranger customs

where the laws of nature
might be reversed.

It was the greatest mystery
on Earth.

A world of ice.

A continent far larger
than the United States

it is three times higher
than any other continent.

Its air is drier than the Sahara

yet 70% of the fresh water
in the world is frozen here

in ice sheets
up to three miles thick.

For centuries, Antarctica was
the ultimate goal...

the last challenge
of exploration.

Getting here
was the hardest thing

a human being could do.

Until 1821, no one even saw it.

Explorers came bravely
in wooden ships.

The ice crushed them...

but they never gave up.

In 1911, Robert Falcon Scott
of Britain

and Roald Amundsen of Norway

both started for the South Pole.

Both men would reach the Pole

but only one of them would return.

This is Scott's party
sitting like knights

at the long table
beneath their battle flags.

The long table is still there...

the chairs they sat on

the cups they drank from.

Here, they helped
to build the foundations

of Antarctic science.

Their isolation was complete.

They worked at the very edge
of what was known

and the lessons they learned
were often hard.

Never Scott's old hut

in the shadow of a volcano
called Mount Erebus

there is a nursery on the ice.

Weddell seals were one
of the first animals

to be studied in Antarctica,
one of the few species

that lives here all year.

The pup was born a few weeks ago

and, now, it's time
for it to learn how to swim.

At home beneath the ice,
they call eerily to one another.

Scientists have been
counting seals here

since the early days,
but they are still fascinated

by how these animals
have adapted to the climate

and to the freezing water.

The seal's blood carries
so much oxygen

that is can hold its breath
for over an hour.

They're amongst the greatest
natural divers in the world.

The ice is six feet thick.

This is where Antarctica
hides its color

and its complexity.

Forests of tiny plants,
called algae

grow in the ice
as if in a greenhouse.

Millions of krill,
which are like small shrimp

eat the algae.

Fish eat the krill
and seals eat the fish.

This chain of life
is so isolated and balanced

it gives scientists clues

to the health
of the whole planet.

Diving here is agony
for the first 20 minutes.

After that,
it becomes dangerous.

Keep a hold!

Less than two percent
of Antarctica is free of ice.

Here, Adelie penguins
build nests of stones.

But even stones
are in short supply.

Somewhere,
a leopard seal waits-

a thousand pounds of muscle

and teeth well-adapted
to tear flash.

So scientists
have built a cage

for a view of emperor penguins
early explorers longed for.

The penguin on land
is almost wholly ludicrous.

But the penguin in the water
is another thing.

One would like to follow
the bird in his aquatic life-

if only such a thing
were possible.

The penguins sense danger,
so they don't surface.

No other bird lays its eggs on
the darkness of a polar winter

or hatches its chicks
in the coldest months

of the Antarctic year.

I think we are right to consider
the bird to be eccentric.

They may look silly,
but they're unbelievably tough.

They must walk
great distances from the sea

lashed by subzero winds,
bellies full of fish and quill

to feed their chicks.

At the edge
of the penguins' empire

ice bergs move slowly out to sea.

They're pieces of Antarctica,
born high on the continent

where snow packs into ice
and flows slowly outward.

If the earth grows warmer,
the movement may speed up

and ice sheets as big as nations
slide into the sea.

The sea would rise,
the climate change.

It may already be happening.

As the ice sheet moves,
it strains and splits.

Some crevasses are so huge,
they could swallow a house.

They can be
hundreds of feet deep.

Windblown snow gradually builds
crystal bridges

across the gap at the top.

The bridges can be quite
invisible on the surface.

Some will support
the weight of a man

but some will not.

Whoa!

This is only a demonstration.

But this was real.

The driver in this accident
was lucky.

He survived.

But his bulldozer is now
in a long slow grind to the sea.

These ponds look shallow,
but they're not.

When a diver swam through a hold

in the bottom
of one these pools

this is what she found.

We're inside a moving glacier.

No other film like this exists.

No one has seen caverns
like this before.

Here, scientists would expect
only rock-hard ice.

So Antarctica reminds us again:

We have scarcely begun
to understand our planet.

Once, these dry valleys
were full of ice.

Thousands of years ago

something happened
to the climate

and the ice that was here
disappeared.

It left behind
vast empty valleys

where it has probably not rained
for a million years

where algae grows
inside solid rock

and the land is so arid

we practice experiments
designed for Mars.

And it left a mystery

that becomes more important
to us each day:

What makes the climate change?

Sea ice around the continent
waxes and wanes.

In winter,
Antarctica doubles in size.

The expanse of coldness affects
climate all over the globe

but Antarctica not only
affects climate

it also records it.

Far from civilization

a core drill digs deep
into the ice sheet.

Ice layers can be read
like the rings of trees.

The climate record goes back
100,000 years.

Entrapped bubbles
of ancient air-

ice cores tell a simple story.

When the levels of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere change

so does the climate.

A day, a week, a month, a year, a decade...

This core came
from 466 feet down.

It's ice that fell as snow
about 4,000 years ago.

In the crystal ball of the ice,
the news from Antarctica is bad.

Methane, strontium 90, lead

increased carbon dioxide

were changing the air...

and we're starting
to see the effects.

20 years ago, scientists
predicted that man-made chemicals

would thin the planet's
protective layer of ozone.

Recently, the thinning
became dramatic

letting dangerous
ultraviolet rays from the sun-

shown here in red--
hit the Earth.

Nobody noticed it...

except in Antarctica.

Here, a few scientists
doing theoretical research

noticed the change
in the upper atmosphere

and learned that man-made
chemicals were causing it.

International cooperation may
slow production of the chemicals

but the damage has been done.

So the research goes on...

trying to understand
what we're doing to our world

trying to find out in time.

In this climate,
you must cooperate to survive.

Here, that hard truth applies
even to politics.

Antarctica is not a nation.

It is protected by a unique
agreement among many nations

to save the continent
for peace and science.

This treaty has lasted
for over 30 years

and stands as a model
for a happier world.

In 1929, 17 years
after the Pole was won

Richard Byrd traded dogs

for an airplane

and was the first
to fly over the South Pole.

He looked in awe
on the wilderness

that Scott and Amundsen
took months to cross.

Today, the flight
takes three hours

and the plane lands

at what seems to be
a space station in low orbit.

Amundsen-Scott
South Pole Station.

Here, on ice 9,000 feet thick

almost a hundred people
from all over the world

work on 30 projects

each looking beyond the edge
of what is known.

At this altitude,
the air is so thin

newcomers struggle for breath

and the cold is unrelenting.

Even in summer,
it reaches 40 below.

The sun rises once a year.

During the six months
of daylight

it makes an almost perfect
circle in the sky every day.

They've come to take its picture
for 2.5 days.

A quick stroll around the world.

The camera's ready

and it reorders time.

Wind is blowing hard

and there's that curious,
damp feeling in the air

which chills one to the bone.

Praise God...
this is an awful place.

Captain Scott and his companions
arrived at the Pole

to find that Roald Amundsen
had been there

just four weeks before.

Taf Evans died

a month into the return journey
from the cold

Titus Oates, who slowed
his companions with his lameness

walked away to his death
to try to save them.

700 miles from the Pole

and just 11 miles from safety

the last three men
were stalked by a blizzard.

With them were 35 pounds
of geological samples

they had hauled
hundreds of miles

in the cause of science.

It seems a pity...

but I don't think
I can write more.

These rough notes
and our dead bodies

must tell the tale.

I should so like
to have come through

for your dear sake.

It is splendid to pass, however,
with such companions as I have

and as all five of us
have mothers and wives

you will not be alone.

Your ever-loving son

to the end of this life
and the next

when God shall wipe away
all tears from our eyes.

Scott and his men
were buried in the ice

which will someday
carry them to sea

but their rock samples
were taken home by others

and their work became

part of the new century's
Age of Science

and of the peculiarly
human combination

of curiosity and courage

that has marked
Antarctica's story.

Dear Lord, we thank you
for this time and this place

and an opportunity to gather
together to give thanks.

We just thank you, Father

for the food
that was prepared for us

and we just pray
that you will keep us safe

and protect us
as we work down here.

For it's in your name we pray.
Amen.

The quest continues, driven by the same force

that inspired
the old explorer knights.

Here, in this place
of great beauty and hard truth

we're given reason to hope
that we may yet do our best.