antarctica

In the year 2083, five fourteen-year-olds who were deprived by chance of the opportunity to continue their educations reenact Scott's 1910-1913 expedition to the South Pole as contestants on a reality television show, secretly aided by a Department of Entertainment employee.

Discusses the continent of Antarctica, including its landforms, regions, ice shelves, plant and animal life,and the scientists who perform reseach there.

Visits the world's driest,coldest,windiest and iciest continent,and introduces many of the marine animals that live there during the summer.

Ernest Shackleton and the 27 men who joined his expedition found that he was true to his word. They had drifted with the pack ice of the Weddell Sea for ten months, their ship had sunk, and they were castaways in one of the most hostile environments on earth, hundreds of miles from land. And so, with his dream of becoming the first man to cross Antarctica long abandoned, Shackleton set his mind to a far greater challenge: bringing his crew safely home.

Ernest Shackleton and the 27 men who joined his expedition found that he was true to his word. They had drifted with the pack ice of the Weddell Sea for ten months, their ship had sunk, and they were castaways in one of the most hostile environments on earth, hundreds of miles from land. And so, with his dream of becoming the first man to cross Antarctica long abandoned, Shackleton set his mind to a far greater challenge: bringing his crew safely home.

Ernest Shackleton and the 27 men who joined his expedition found that he was true to his word. They had drifted with the pack ice of the Weddell Sea for ten months, their ship had sunk, and they were castaways in one of the most hostile environments on earth, hundreds of miles from land. And so, with his dream of becoming the first man to cross Antarctica long abandoned, Shackleton set his mind to a far greater challenge: bringing his crew safely home.