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Deep beneath nearly two kilometres of solid ice lies the coldest, harshest, and most isolated place on Earth — Antarctica.
In this stunning documentary, witness the incredible true story of Emperor Penguins and the few brave humans who choose to live among them. Protected by the historic 1959 Antarctic Treaty, this frozen continent remains a symbol of peace and international cooperation — a place where science triumphs over politics.
Travel with us to the remote Vostok Station near the magnetic South Pole, one of the most extreme environments on the planet. Discover what drives scientists to spend 11 months in total isolation, facing endless darkness, brutal -60°C temperatures, and complete separation from the rest of the world.
While humans battle loneliness and extreme conditions, the real stars of Antarctica — the majestic Emperor Penguins — showcase one of nature’s greatest survival miracles. Watch how these remarkable birds endure freezing blizzards, protect their chicks, and create life in a place where no other animal can survive.
From breathtaking icy landscapes to heart-touching moments of penguin family bonds, this is more than a wildlife film — it’s an emotional journey into the raw beauty and unforgiving reality of life at the end of the Earth.
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Deep beneath nearly two kilometres of solid ice lies the coldest, harshest, and most isolated place on Earth — Antarctica.
In this stunning documentary, witness the incredible true story of Emperor Penguins and the few brave humans who choose to live among them. Protected by the historic 1959 Antarctic Treaty, this frozen continent remains a symbol of peace and international cooperation — a place where science triumphs over politics.
Travel with us to the remote Vostok Station near the magnetic South Pole, one of the most extreme environments on the planet. Discover what drives scientists to spend 11 months in total isolation, facing endless darkness, brutal -60°C temperatures, and complete separation from the rest of the world.
While humans battle loneliness and extreme conditions, the real stars of Antarctica — the majestic Emperor Penguins — showcase one of nature’s greatest survival miracles. Watch how these remarkable birds endure freezing blizzards, protect their chicks, and create life in a place where no other animal can survive.
From breathtaking icy landscapes to heart-touching moments of penguin family bonds, this is more than a wildlife film — it’s an emotional journey into the raw beauty and unforgiving reality of life at the end of the Earth.
If you love nature documentaries, extreme survival stories, and the wonders of our planet, this video is for you.
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00:35On December the 1st 1959, the world decided it needed somewhere with no weapons, no wars,
00:42no borders or exploitation of human by human.
00:46An ideal community of free people only ever engaged in peaceful activities.
01:02An amazing place for amazing people.
01:07But the people who come here are really quite ordinary.
01:13It's only after they've lived here, even for a short time, that people become special.
01:22Because this is a place that changes everyone who visits.
01:27What are they ready?
01:28Eat.
01:29There's a strong wind.
01:30Here's a good one.
01:33It's great when you travel to the world.
01:36There are good people, not only at home.
01:39With different mentalities, with different color of the skin, with different kitchen.
02:04Many different languages are spoken here, but the people all understand each other very well.
02:12Some even talk to the animals and birds and commune with nature itself.
02:20They all get along.
02:36There are no bad things to dream in our age.
02:40I actually think that these red and red dreams of all over the world are the most important and important
02:47part of our normal life and our life.
02:51Because from the dream, then there will be a reality.
02:55I'm a biologist.
02:57I'm a biologist.
03:07I'm a biologist.
03:12Life here might seem unbearable.
03:15Perishing cold, a chilling wind and not a single tree, bush or blade of grass to be seen.
03:22Nothing but a lifeless, desolate wasteland.
03:34But people do live and work here.
03:37They even get married.
03:39And they all believe they're on a vital mission.
03:44Setting humanity on a path to knowledge of self, the planet and the whole universe.
03:57In this place.
03:58Now we are in a real place.
04:00In this place.
04:01A wonderful event.
04:01It's a beautiful view.
04:04It's an entire way.
04:05Yes, thank you.
04:05This is what an Antarsithi.
04:09It's an entire experience.
04:10Hasn't been under the wall of the land.
04:11There are also many fuels.
04:11It's an entire time coming out but the wall of the earth.
04:15It's beautiful.
04:22Antarctica is our southernmost continent, surrounded by three oceans.
04:32It's a 14 million square kilometer no-man's land of polar cold.
04:38The lowest known temperature on Earth, 94.7 degrees Celsius, was recorded here.
04:43The South Pole is probably the world's most inaccessible location.
04:49Well, almost.
04:51There's also the Pole of Inaccessibility, which is also here in Antarctica.
05:01Even music sounds different here to anywhere else on Earth.
05:08In fact, everything feels different.
05:12People from more than 30 countries and cultures live together in a close, friendly community.
05:24Antarctica is a very international community and most definitely, historically and presently,
05:31there are many collaborations.
05:34The beauty of research work in Antarctica is that it is driven by sharing of resources,
05:42because you cannot survive in this continent if you want to go it on your own.
05:46So, there is a very active, it's almost a bartering culture of, we do this for you, then you help
05:56us out in another area.
06:02So, my playing was not great, of course, because I should play with gloves.
06:10It's not comfortable, but I'm sure that my fingers inside has a blue color now.
06:33Everyone here knows that a trauma surgeon is spending the winter at Russia's Billingshausen station.
06:38That means anyone who's injured gets sent to him.
06:43The Chileans have a dentist, so everyone goes to Freybase to have their teeth fixed.
06:48Handy-datings
06:51Apparel, искусственной вентиляции and interaction.
06:54It will be an operation, we'll be working on us. We're ready.
06:58You're all alive, or are you?
06:59completely done, exactly.
07:07Where is the people going?
07:09Here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
07:14The chef is a master.
07:20There is a good word, an English Englishman, he is autonomous, he should have everything.
07:25You can cook bread, cook some conditers,
07:30for the day of the day of the day of the day of the day of the day of the
07:31day of the day of the day.
08:00Scientific research, collaboration and respect are all that's allowed in Antarctica.
08:05That's the agreement to which the people of Earth have now adhered for 60 years.
08:10Cooperation in Antarctica is everything.
08:12You know, the Antarctic Treaty has set Antarctica as a place for peace and for science.
08:17So it's all open to everybody.
08:20Any scientist who wants to work in Antarctica is welcome to go there and to collaborate with others.
08:42On December the 1st, 1959, in Washington, D.C.,
08:46twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty that came into force on June the 23rd, 1961.
08:56From that day on, Antarctica has belonged to no nation.
09:03Military deployment and warships are forbidden beyond the 60th South parallel.
09:12In 1980, Antarctica was declared a nuclear-free zone,
09:16making it a no-go area for atomic-powered vessels or nuclear power plants.
09:48The arrival in Antarctica of the research vessel,
09:52academic Fedorov can only mean one thing, a shift change for Russia's Polar Explorers.
10:19After an 11-month tour of duty, some will go home and others will take their place,
10:24living and working on this harsh continent for nearly a year.
10:27They sometimes jokingly call themselves Antarcticanians.
10:31What makes them tick for a year?
10:33Their work, remembering home, but most of all, their dreams.
10:38What makes them tick for a year?
10:51What makes them happy and comfortable living in the world, in which we live?
10:58In a world that is not effective for natural consumption and consumption.
11:19If you can imagine, how much heat, light and human work needs to pay for a
11:26jetpack, which I have now put on the house, it's crazy.
11:31It was a sort of crazy.
11:34How did you do that?
11:36The water from the water just left.
11:39The water from the water.
11:41We are going to the water.
11:44The water is going to the water.
11:46Turn it out.
11:47As an ecologist, I often think about people.
11:54As part of our ecosystem.
11:57There are many teeth and teeth.
12:01Well, if you can do it, take a shot.
12:03What is that?
12:04Well, these waves.
12:06What do you think?
12:07What do you think?
12:08What do you think?
12:08What do you think?
12:09What do you think?
12:1490% of all the energy and the substances that we produce,
12:18which we produce, are not empty words.
12:21So it is.
12:27The production of meat, fish, meat, clothes, clothes is dangerous.
12:35It is not effective.
12:36They say they are very delicious.
12:43The thing is not to put in the energy-effective water,
12:47which means that the morning light light would take away from the cellar,
12:52which we are interested in.
12:53It also is that the light light light would get higher
12:58as if it's possible.
13:00For years, the thought of the way I've been interested in the process
13:03is that I'm interested in the way I can do it with the hands of it.
13:08magari this will be some sort of part, but it's already a step forward.
13:12The Antarctic is a great place to be able to do such things.
13:45It's hard to see what draws these people back year after year.
13:49How can they stand 11 monotonous months of harsh, unchanging scenery, in largely male
13:56company, so far from family and friends?
14:18Oh, they were счастливые, довольные, глаза блестели, готовы
14:24были всех обнять, счастье светилось, радость.
14:28Глаза в зеркало души, и поэтому у них душа была на
14:30распашку и прямо светилась огнем.
14:33Сегодня просто радость других людей, как они радуются,
14:36довольные, счастливые, что они едут домой, и поэтому
14:39приятно наблюдать за их счастьем.
14:44For 60% of polar explorers, the first expedition is also their last.
14:49For others, it's the opposite.
14:51They yearn to return to Antarctica again and again.
14:58Why I went to Antarctica, I can't remember.
15:01I was born with a wish, I think, to go to Antarctica.
15:07Когда я увидел первый раз айсберг, одно дело много слышать,
15:13а совсем другое увидеть, когда этот кусок, скажем так,
15:18огромный кусок сахара плывет по льду, это было что-то, конечно,
15:23невероятное.
15:25Я зарекался, я 4 года просидел дома, все, все, мама, мама, я буду дома с тобой, дети,
15:32все, все.
15:37Вечером звонок, отдел кадров, сразу сказал,
15:40у меня сейчас уже сам взять чемоданы, все, больше не было другого разговора.
15:46О, я бы хотел вернуться, но Арби решила, не принимать людей дважды.
15:53Они не любят эксперименту, они боятся, что кто-то скажет,
15:57я знаю все лучше, чем вы, потому что я был здесь раньше.
16:30Академия не counting.
16:36The scientists of Antarctica have a keen interest in absolutely everything.
16:42Our globe is going through a period of change and understanding which aspects of those changes are part of natural
16:52cycles and being able to tease apart where there is a human influence
16:59is extremely valuable.
17:02For example, I'm a geophysist and I did seismological measurements, I did gravity measurements, we observed the ice movement and
17:12also we had magnetic measurements that's concerning the Earth's magnetic field, how it gets stronger or weaker and how it
17:19changes direction and also how the polar lights are doing.
17:25The air comes under scrutiny here too. They analyse its composition and record the wind speed. Water, snow and ice
17:33are also monitored.
17:34There was a meteorological observatory and a geophysical observatory and the air chemistry lab and we also took snow samples
17:43and that was actually sort of the beginning of my present work.
17:46Because I started working with Neumeier data then after my PhD thesis and sort of developed this whole thing to
17:53a larger area and what I'm doing now.
17:56Another subject of particular interest, stones.
18:00Auge, that's the type of the rock, it's a metamorphic and it has, if you look closely, then it has
18:08some round capsules in there and they look like ice.
18:14And the German word for eye would be Auge and Gneiss is the rock type.
18:24They also study what little soil there is, but only 1% of Antarctic land consists of it. And to
18:31be exact, that's permafrost.
18:54And of course, the scientists are always paying close attention to Antarctica's flora and fauna.
19:01The temperature was increasing in the winter time, five times more than in middle Europe.
19:07And it has large consequences for the penguins.
19:12Adelies need ice in the winter.
19:14The reason is that under the ice there are living small algae, diatoms, and these are the main food for
19:23krill, small crustacea.
19:25And if there is no ice, it's less krill and a lack of food for penguins and they are searching
19:35for other breeding places more south.
19:40Deep in its ice and waters, Antarctica holds many undiscovered truths about the past and future of our world.
19:51Scientists believe that if this land ever chooses to reveal its secrets, they could change our lives.
19:58And now your dream is growing up to a new social, let's say, a new relationship between people.
20:08And I don't see anything bad in this.
20:12Because there will be 10, 20, 100,000 such as me,
20:16and the dreamers.
20:22But no scientific research at all would be possible without one essential element.
20:29But what could that be on this remote continent?
20:33The most important thing is that people are in Antarctica.
20:39You have to bear the minuses of others,
20:43and on the other hand, all the rest of them have to bear the minuses of yours.
20:51During the summer, 25 people work at the Vostok station.
20:55Only 10 to 12 stay for the winter.
20:58It was long ago that these buildings last saw sunlight.
21:02They are totally covered in snow.
21:04And the only way out is through a snow tunnel.
21:08Such total isolation leaves its mark on the relationships within a team.
21:17There are people who love me.
21:19They are supposed to be beautiful here.
21:20Because if you are a beautiful person, then it will be bad.
21:25Not all are, of course, great.
21:26There are those honest idiots.
21:30But they are less.
21:31Well, it's probably linked to the specific living here.
21:35They always have to help each other.
21:39They have to applaud each other.
21:40Well, actually, it's clear.
21:56The Antarctic sun beats down with unbelievable strength.
22:01Ultraviolet levels here are the highest on Earth and magnified several times over by reflecting off the white snow.
22:08Without adequate protection, eyes can burn to blindness, cheekbones to blisters, and lips to bloodied scabs.
22:19It's all due to the ozone hole, which is incredibly big.
22:24It was discovered here in Antarctica in 1985.
22:28A breakthrough that changed everything we ever thought we knew about the atmosphere.
22:33We had thought that there was too much ozone, that it was poisoning our biosphere and causing the greenhouse effect.
22:44But while working here, scientists cleared all that up and calmed everyone down.
22:49It appears every August to terrify humanity, but in December, it disappears as though it never existed.
22:56When the hole is open, the sun's rays easily penetrate the atmosphere.
23:01And rapid heating causes giant pockets of air to whirl around Antarctica.
23:07That's how severe cyclonic storms get started.
23:36The
23:43The research vessel academic Fyodorov has unloaded all of its vital cargo of fuel, machinery, scientific equipment and provisions.
23:58Supplies for the inland Vostok Arctic research station will be loaded onto huge sledges and hauled by tractors.
24:06This caterpillar sledge train will then set off on a long journey.
24:22The column never stops for a moment. Two crews keep it going, while one is at the wheel, the other
24:28sleeps in the trailer.
24:29There was a pump on the car. We had to change it. It was 32-33 degrees.
24:38The wind is always blowing. The wind is always in one direction. If it's larger, it's smaller.
24:52The drivers are on the icy road for two to three weeks. The snow-covered ground resembles the sea, but
24:59these waves are solid stone.
25:01And the trailers rock from side to side.
25:06Drivers with the skill to navigate the terrain without waking their companions are most in demand.
25:15As a kidnapping with the hour, people will forget about it.
25:21At the normal long before they've been extiled from the mountain, they feel the stress.
25:45on this harsh and dangerous route anything can happen in these icy conditions the engines are
25:52starved of oxygen and eventually stall and break down repairs have to be performed on the spot in
25:58temperatures of minus 50 degrees celsius there's no time to waste every expedition member knows that
26:19the tractor train must keep moving no matter what if it doesn't make it no one will be able to
26:25spend
26:25the winter at Vostok and the station will die the reason why france went for caterpillars instead of
26:34casbauer to build its traverse is its capability of these vehicles to carry very heavy loads you have
26:42to realize that the traverse that epev handles every year between the coast and concordia station is the
26:48only way to supply all the cargo that the station requires and this represents about 500 tons of
26:54cargo every year being transported so it's a lot of cargo снимаю шляпу перед немецкими инженерами
27:02которые сделали такую замечательную машину действительно полярная модель специально
27:06разработка доработанная скажем так для антарктиды более-менее акклиматизированная под эти суровые условия
27:28these researchers will cover almost 3000 kilometers in transpolar aircraft and they'll stay here until the
27:36antarctic summer returns
27:48snow in the very heart of antarctica has one amazing property when the temperature drops below minus 55
27:56it becomes a dry frozen sand if a plane lands on it friction instantly heats its skis which then
28:04refreeze solidly onto the runway that's why planes can only fly to vostok between mid-december and early
28:12february just two months in every year for the rest of the time the people are completely cut off from
28:19the outside world
28:21of the outside world
28:40vostok's water supply is drawn from the snow
28:49the station sits more than 3500 meters above sea level at that altitude even the fittest of people tire
28:57very quickly due to the low oxygen levels
29:21conditions here are truly inhuman the average temperature in december and january falls below
29:28minus 30 and in winter minus 80 is par for the course atmospheric pressure is 40 percent lower than
29:37on the mainland and there's less oxygen in the air headaches joint pain and nosebleeds are
29:44symptoms of acclimatization it can take a whole month for a body to adapt it a key poxia react
29:51with people are different this is a mountain disease, it's impossible to get used to it, it's just a pure
29:56adaptation and it's possible to protect you even in the middle of the winter
30:02Russia, the Soviet Union at that time went to Vostok station because it was the farthest place from the coast
30:09from anywhere in Antarctica it was the most challenging place and in a way the Soviet Union wanted to show
30:14how good they were at handling very extreme conditions
30:18so the start was more I would say a political one than a scientific one now it's different the situation
30:25is very much driven by science
30:34all of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet that can be up to four kilometers thick that's enough to
30:41cover the entire planet in a 50 meter thick layer of ice
30:48rift, we call it geology, it's geological
30:51and when there's the mountain here there is a large tracheae of this mountain
30:55and in the middle of this mountain when and when and when people knew it was before it was there
31:01it was a bit of the ocean, it was a bit of the ocean here
31:05and on the right hand here is the water which is interesting, it's not the surface of the ocean
31:08like normal ocean, it's like a normal ocean, but a bit of the ocean
31:23Lake Vostok was one of the biggest geographical discoveries in the second half of the 20th
31:28century. Scientists had long suspected that there was a lake the size of Europe.
31:34Subglacial Lake Vostok contains water that is millions of years old.
31:39But to reach it, you have to drill through the so-called atmospheric ice, formed by the
31:45snow that has fallen in Antarctica for millennia.
31:58One theory is that the lake formed because the ice sheet above it melted under the pressure
32:02of its own weight.
32:04Another is that the lake had always existed, even before Antarctica froze over, and that
32:10the ice sheets simply sealed it in.
32:27The late 20th century saw the first attempt to reach the lake by drilling through the
32:32kilometers of ice that conceal this unique body of water.
32:59The borehole was dubbed 5G1, and drilling began in 1989.
33:04The borehole was dubbed 5G1, and drilling began in 1989.
33:06Soviet, French, and American members of the joint expedition at the Vostok station all took part.
33:15Actually, my word is related to studies of the past climate.
33:20In Antarctica, there are ice cores being drilled.
33:24They are about 10 centimeters in diameter and up to 3 kilometers long.
33:33Researchers from various countries drill through the Antarctic, all using their unique methods.
33:39But only at the Russian station have drillers managed to reach the ice boundary, and the
33:45lake water where they stopped.
33:48Apparently, there's no way yet to take water samples from the lake without introducing contaminating
33:53microorganisms.
34:04So far, we have no way of knowing whether there's life in the most ancient water on Earth.
34:09But paleoclimatologists have found material that is just as valuable for their research.
34:14Ice is the only archive where you can have simultaneously stored the temperature history of the Earth and simultaneously
34:27to the same times also the composition of the atmosphere of these times.
34:32So we can directly go into the ice and find out the contents of this atmosphere, especially
34:41CO2.
34:46And from this CO2 measurements, we know from the last 800,000 years.
34:57This is about a meter here.
34:59So we cut it from here, and here.
35:08Studies of this ancient ice have yielded serious scientific results.
35:13We can extract data about the Earth's climate hundreds of thousands or even millions of years
35:18years ago.
35:18How?
35:19From tiny air bubbles, trapped in the ice for millions of years.
35:24The snow, which is falling all the time, continues to keep up with its own strength, and it turns
35:30into the air.
35:31And at some point, what happens?
35:33These air bubbles, which exist between the ice crystals and the ice, are just closed.
35:39They turn into bubbles.
35:40They turn into bubbles.
35:42They turn into bubbles.
35:43They turn into bubbles.
35:45They turn into bubbles.
35:46They turn into bubbles.
35:47They turn into bubbles.
35:48From these studies, researchers now know that greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and methane,
35:54have occasionally built up in the atmosphere, leading to a warmer climate.
35:58Then, hundreds of thousands of years later, levels decrease again, resulting in ice ages.
36:07It's to get access to a major climate change which took place about one million years ago,
36:12and it's a kind of an enigma.
36:14We don't really know what happened.
36:16We expect that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is responsible for this change, and this is what
36:21we want to check.
36:22How much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere a million years before present?
36:29So, perhaps the global warming we see today is just a period in the planet's climatic history.
36:35And people have nothing to do with it.
36:37Or are we accessories to climatic calamity after all?
36:41These are the questions paleoontologists are trying to answer here in Antarctica.
36:51I'll show you a few of our images, which we did in Antarctica.
36:58This, for example, was already 25 years ago.
37:04But we have missed the students in the Pachelle Cooper, student of Stancy Bennysgausson, and Tom
37:11and the Pachelle Pinguini.
37:15And Julieno Napanere.
37:22researchers from every country represented in Antarctica pursue purely scientific objectives
37:28but politicians have another goal it's what they call presence the quality of presence
37:35on the polar continent is a symbol of a nation's capability and strength
37:45the extent to which a country can influence Antarctica's future depends on it
37:52the USA Australia France Germany China Japan India Chile and other countries have stations in Antarctica
38:01in all more than 50 countries have a presence and they're all signatories to the Antarctic treaty
38:18a moment of truth is coming soon the 1959 treaty expires in less than 30 years well and that is
38:28the beauty the absolute beauty that these tensions do not matter in the scientific community in trouble
38:35maybe because of a medical emergency or because the weather just closes opportunities for science
38:42in one area then the cooperation is there to look how can we best help each other other tensions do
38:47not come into it at all on the grassroots level of doing Antarctic research and it is a wonderful
38:54example how the international community can come together and how we can overcome other issues and
39:00work together but for now all polar explorers abide by rules agreed sixty years ago the only legal activity and
39:11respect of Antarctica and its inhabitants his research
39:38in truth the native inhabitants aren't always happy about the attention
39:43its backcountry
39:44why
39:58it
39:59is
39:59it
39:59not
40:00why
40:18There is a stream of monkeys, and we go to the stream of monkeys, and we go to the stream
40:22of monkeys.
40:22They are small, they are small.
40:24And there was a little bit of a spuse from the river, and a little bit of a penguin.
40:31He looks like a penguin.
40:35My friends went forward, and I got to go on a 5-6 meters.
40:38I looked at a penguin, and he said, oh, he's a little bit!
40:41He's a little bit in the 5 meters, and he's a little bit in the 5 meters.
40:45He's a cool person.
40:46I said, why did you get there? I said, I can't get there.
40:49I said, I want to go, I'm going to go.
40:52I was going to take a look.
40:53He feels that the deal is not good.
40:57He starts to start.
40:59He's going to take a look.
41:04He's going to take a look.
41:07I'm going to help you.
41:08I'm going to get up.
41:12I'm going to get up.
41:13I'm going to take him down.
41:15He's going to get up.
41:17In the end, I'm going to get up.
41:20As I said eventually, it's all down.
41:23He's going to keep him close.
41:27I say, do you know, this kind of thing?
41:29He threw his teeth out.
41:31He keeps taking a look at something.
41:32I got out on him.
41:34Man beim Mat, I'm not going to take him.
41:38It will be a while everyone is getting back.
41:46Oh, my God!
41:50I'm going to go ahead and go.
41:51What do you think?
41:54This penguin is starting to go down again.
41:59Then I realized,
42:01that it was just a look at the clock.
42:17You know what the story is?
42:28This is my home.
42:29There was some peace.
42:32There was a quietness.
42:33I wanted people, like in Antarctica,
42:36more, more, more, more, more, more, more.
42:41I mean, it is an amazing, amazing place.
42:43And I think you can be prepared to go there
42:47and feel your place in the universe.
42:48You suddenly feel very small.
42:54How do you cope with such an enormous overload?
42:57Holidays come to the rescue.
43:03They don't grow up, girls.
43:06Well, we're going to set someone with a snowman.
43:08Where are the borders?
43:09You can go wherever you want.
43:11Here is a Chinese station.
43:13There is a Chinese station.
43:13There is an Indian station.
43:16How?
43:17How?
43:18There is everything as it should be.
43:19I'm not in English.
43:21I'm not in Russian.
43:22We're talking about it.
43:35Midwinter probably brings the biggest holiday to Antarctica.
43:41Everyone celebrates, no matter which country they're from.
43:46The Midwinter celebrations mean that half of the season has passed.
43:51And every day takes you closer to going home.
43:57The Americans have a reputation for coming up with fun ideas.
44:01And they've decided that everyone must celebrate Midwinter together.
44:05The more the merrier.
44:09The Antarctic Winter Film Festival, or the with.
44:16The Antarctic Film Festival is drawing near.
44:20It's scheduled for the first weekend of August at the American McMurdo Station.
44:25McMurdo is the largest station in Antarctica.
44:27It's a small town with a population of almost 1,500.
44:41The festival consists of two parts.
44:44First, the open category.
44:47Entrants upload their amateur films of any genre, about any topic.
44:51The only restriction is on duration.
44:53It can be no longer than five minutes.
44:57Why just five?
44:59Because a common Antarctic problem is a low-speed connection.
45:14The second category is for films made in just 48 hours.
45:18On Friday, festival organizers announce the rules.
45:22And on Monday, all participants upload their entries,
45:26which are shown to the entire population of McMurdo.
45:29And the jury delivers its verdict.
45:31The winners are announced in several nominations.
45:34Just like all good movie festivals.
45:37Best Film.
45:38Best Actor.
45:39Best Writer.
45:40Best Camera Work.
45:41And there's an Audience Award.
45:45To the truth!
46:03All of Antarctica's inhabitants abide by laws.
46:06Some, the feathered and aquatic varieties, abide by the Antarctic laws of nature.
46:12Others, by the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty.
46:20Under the Antarctic Treaty, there was a new piece of legislation called the Environmental Protocol,
46:25that was issued and adopted in the early 1990s.
46:30And part of that, well the whole of the Environmental Protocol,
46:32is about how we, under the treaty, are going to manage the environment better.
46:36So it was all things about mineral exploitation, looking after wildlife environment,
46:41protecting some areas as being of special scientific interest.
47:00The water is working.
47:03The air is now on, the24s are on the daily basis.
47:04The air is now on, the different control.
47:06The air is now on in the eight years.
47:18The rules governing Antarctic life specifically state that any country exploring the continent
47:24must leave only pristine land behind them.
47:27That's what explorers do every year when a large ship arrives and they prepare for a
47:32shift change.
47:34They burn what can be burned, and all glass and scrap metal is collected to be shipped
47:39out to the mainland.
47:58Later, the scrap metal and glass is loaded into a container and taken to the ship by tractor
48:04and helicopter.
48:19There is some strong rules in the Antarctic.
48:22The Matriot Protocol with six annexes.
48:27And there is, it's written down, more or less, that what is not allowed, what is not to
48:34introduce animals and plants and not to introduce special chemicals or materials.
48:42And if all countries work seriously with such points, it would be much more better, of course.
48:56These are the signs that were built at the Neumeier base where people wanted to show how far
49:02it is from Neumeier to go home.
49:06For instance, to Bremerhaven, it would be 14,025 kilometers.
49:15Every Antarctic station of every country has similar mile markers.
49:20It's a symbol, a reminder of home, and a subtle sign of the state's identity.
49:50This is a symbol.
49:53This is a symbol.
49:53This is a symbol.
49:53It is a symbol for a person to drink and drink from any water without any harm for health.
50:03And there are a lot of things here.
50:06For now, the harsh climate hinders colonization in Antarctica.
50:10But in the future, if it warms, this southernmost continent really could be settled.
50:18we cannot turn the time back there is political interest to have stations in the antarctic there's
50:23economical interest to have tourism in the antarctic i think there's it's important to
50:29set some limit but it turns out that signing the antarctic treaty doesn't mean that the
50:38countries that ratified it have withdrawn their territorial claims over the continent and nearby
50:45areas some of the claims are enormous the beauty of the antarctic treaty is all nations who have
50:54made those territorial claims put them aside completely and as you know some of the
51:00territorial claims are overlapping but all that is put aside entirely because the continent is
51:07dedicated to scientific research it will be a real shame if the antarctic values embedded in that
51:21treaty of a perfect community of free citizens engaged solely in research and scientific progress
51:28should ever sink into oblivion there should be a place for true freedom equality and human brotherhood
51:36on this fragile world of ours
51:37you
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