Horizon
Season 53 Episode 8 - Ice Station Antarctica
Antarctica is the last great wilderness. It's the coldest, windiest, driest and most isolated place on Earth. And every winter, for over three months of the year, the sun never rises. But it's also home to the British Antarctic Survey's Halley Research Station. A veteran of living and working at Halley in the early eighties, BBC weatherman Peter Gibbs makes an emotional return to the place he once called home. A place that, during his time, was key to the discovery of the ozone hole. The journey starts with an arduous 12-day, 3000-mile voyage onboard the RRS Ernest Shackleton. Once on the ice shelf, Peter is delighted to finally arrive at the futuristic research station and marvels at the cutting edge science being done at Halley today. From vital discoveries about how our lives are vulnerable to the sun's activities, to studying interplanetary travel and the threat of man-made climate change. But Peter's journey is also something of a rescue mission. The research station's home is a floating ice shelf that constantly moves and cracks, and the ice shelf has developed a chasm that could cast Halley adrift on a massive iceberg.
Episodes in Season 53
The Immortalist
60 min
Project Greenglow - The Quest for Gravity Control
60 min
The Mystery of Dark Energy
60 min
Oceans of the Solar System
60 min
The End of the Solar System
60 min
Should We Close Our Zoos?
60 min
How to Find Love Online
60 min
Ice Station Antarctica
60 min
Curing Alzheimer's
60 min
E-Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?
60 min
Why Are We Getting So Fat?
60 min
Sports Doping - Winning At Any Cost?
60 min
Inside CERN
60 min
My Amazing Twin
60 min
The Lost Tribes of Humanity
60 min
The Wildest Weather in the Universe
60 min
