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2015., Music Box Films Call No: DVD 998.9 P882a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most severe environment on Earth.
![Antarctica [DVD] (2015). Directed by Anthony Powell. : a year on ice .](/Library/images/~imageCT82399.JPG "Antarctica [DVD] (2015). Directed by Anthony Powell. : a year on ice .")
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-- Erebus :2018., Random House Canada Call No: 910.91 P162e Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014. The story of a ship begins after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, when Great Britain had more bomb ships than it had enemies. The solid, reinforced hulls of HMS Erebus, and another bomb ship, HMS Terror, made them suitable for discovering what lay at the coldest ends of the earth. In 1839, Erebus was chosen as the flagship of an expedition to penetrate south to explore Antarctica. Under the leadership of the charismatic James Clark Ross, she and HMS Terror sailed further south than anyone had been before. But Antarctica never captured the national imagination; what the British navy needed now was confirmation of its superiority by making the discovery, once and for all, of a route through the North-West Passage. Chosen to lead the mission was Sir John Franklin, at 59 someone many considered too old for such a hazardous journey. Nevertheless, he and his men confidently sailed away down the Thames in April 1845. Provisioned for three winters in the Arctic, Erebus and Terror and the 129 men of the Franklin expedition were seen heading west by two whalers in late July. No one ever saw them again. Over the years there were many attempts to discover what might have happened--and eventually the first bodies were discovered in shallow graves, confirming that it had been the dreadful fate of the explorers to die of hunger and scurvy as they abandoned the ships in the ice. For generations, the mystery of what had happened to the ships endured. Then, on September 9th, 2014, came the almost unbelievable news: HMS Erebus had been discovered thirty feet below the Arctic waters, by a Parks Canada exploration ship. Palin looks at the Erebus story through the different motives of the two expeditions, one scientific and successful, the other nationalistic and disastrous. He examines the past by means of the extensive historical record and travels in the present day to those places where there is still an echo of Erebus herself, from the dockyard where she was built, to Tasmania where the Antarctic voyage began and the Falkland Islands, then on to the Canadian Arctic, to get a sense of what the conditions must have been like for the starving, stumbling sailors as they abandoned their ships to the ice. And of course the story has a future. It lies ten metres down in the waters of Nunavut's Queen Maud Gulf, where many secrets wait to be revealed."--
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1995., Crown Publishers Call No: 930 H234f Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2007., General, Seville Pictures Call No: DVD 919.89 L349l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Jean Lemire and his crew of explorers, scientists and filmmakers set out on the mission of a lifetime : sailing to Antartica to take the planet's pulse and live an incredible 430-day journey of adventure and discovery. The Last Continent is a thrilling voyage across breathtaking landscapes filled with fascinating wildlife... all threatened by the Earth's changing conditions."--Container.
![The last continent [DVD] (2007). Directed by Jean Lemire](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The last continent [DVD] (2007). Directed by Jean Lemire")
