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Deployment Films
Antarctica is the most hostile and forbidding place on earth. Scott, famously and movingly, called it `this awful place’. But as the following film shows most vividly, it is also awesome, beautiful – and unforgettable.
Livingstone Island Moutains and Glaciers
Just out from the coast, great flocks of petrels gather on the surface of the sea. Sometimes hundreds whirl around together in a grey cloud of birds. There are usually several different species in the flock but they are all petrels.
Petrels
While most penguins only nest on the islands or the Antarctic Peninsula, the Adélies breed at over 50 locations on the continent itself. The largest colony is 71º South at Cape Adare. It contains an estimated 220,000 pairs which make so much noise they can be heard 50 km downwind.
Adelies cleaning their feathers after a swim
Icebergs are a real threat to ships. At times they are so numerous that they show up on HMS ENDURANCE’S radar screen as hundreds of tiny white dots which in reality indicate an iceberg that could sink the largest vessel.
Iceberg
The Southern Ocean is the worst ocean in the world. Powerful winds continually race around it, reaching hurricane force several times a year, and huge waves form unrestrained by any land.
Heading South
All films shot by Lt Scott `Stimpy' Simpson
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