The Cleanest Place in the World
With temperatures always below zero and blizzards driving at 100 mph, Antarctica is no easy place to survive in. Yet there are .now more than 2,000 scientists and engineers from 14 countries who put up with the discomforts to study in such a clean and largely untouched environment.
Most teams have come to use
Antarctica as a great natural laboratory. From here they can study just who has polluted the earth most. Using this vantage point to look through the upper atmosphere to the other side of the earth, they may learn more about the weather.
The scientific work in Antarctica is dependent on the continent remaining untouched, but already natural gas has been struck and the mountains contain some of the biggest coalfields in the world. Narrator FRANK GILLARD dealt grippingly with Antarctica
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Antarctica film by FRANZ LAZI FILM. Stuttgart
Editor PETER GOODCHILD
Presented by TED POULTER X