Detour: Antarctica
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The quest to be first
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
World records are what bring people to Antarctica. When Colin O’Brady claimed an ‘Impossible First’ skiing solo across Antarctica, it exposed cr...
New Zealand's dirty nuclear secret
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While Kiwis were protesting for a nuclear-free Pacific, 300 tons of radioactive soil were sailing through New Zealand waters. Thomas Bywater discusses...
A very cold case
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Antarctica is the only continent without police, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any crime. When it was discovered in 2000 an Antarctic research...
Antarctica's baby boom
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Being pregnant on an Antarctic research base is banned. So how is it that eleven children were born there in the 1980s? And where are they now? Thomas...
The Ice Pact
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Antarctic Treaty is the rulebook to the South Pole. But when it was written sixty years ago, the creep of Antarctic tourism and iceberg harvesting...
Arrowheads in Antarctica
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, when arrowheads were discovered in Antarctica, it sparked an archaeological mystery. Were they the first sign of an untapped history of ...
Three weeks in a leaky boat
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Punta Arenas is an Antarctic Gateway city. It has trapped the likes of Shackleton, Henry Worsley and other polar explorers - but, more recently, 2000 ...
Trailer
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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