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Your Shortcut to... Antarctica

Season 4 Episode 654 Published 3 years, 1 month ago
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It's a desert... it's the coldest place on earth... and 60 Australians live there all winter long! Who are the people who choose to live in the coldiest, windiest, and driest continent on earth? What work are they doing there? And how do they survive in such a harsh place?

LINKS

Two Aussie doctors on a mission: https://antarctica2023.com.au/

Boiling water freezing before it hits the ground:

https://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/people-in-antarctica/how-cold-is-it/

Videos about life at each of the three Australian Antarctic research stations:

https://jobs.antarctica.gov.au/living-and-working-in-antarctica/

Quiz to see if you've got what it takes to work in Antarctica

https://jobs.antarctica.gov.au/living-and-working-in-antarctica/working-in-antarctica-quiz/

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