Featuring a rather rousing score that well complemented the endeavour here, this short feature follows an international team as they travel from Europe to Norway's farthest-flung territory - Queen Maud Land. This barren chunk of Antarctica was to be their home for a winter in which they hoped to explore the mountainous regions and learn more about the weather. Firstly, though, they had to get there and that was done on a factory whaling ship before they transfer to a smaller, more nimble whaler, and thence to the land. This in itself was quite a feat of navigation as their powerful boat was fr…
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