Horizon - Season 53 Episode 8
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.
First Air Date : 1964-02-04
Last Air date : 2024-07-22
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
- Season 53 : Episode 12016-03-16
- Season 53 : Episode 22016-03-23
- Season 53 : Episode 32016-03-30
- Season 53 : Episode 42016-04-06
- Season 53 : Episode 52016-04-13
- Season 53 : Episode 62016-04-17
- Season 53 : Episode 72016-04-25
- Season 53 : Episode 82016-05-04
- Season 53 : Episode 92016-05-11
- Season 53 : Episode 102016-05-22
- Season 53 : Episode 112016-06-07
- Season 53 : Episode 122016-07-19
- Season 53 : Episode 132016-08-10
- Season 53 : Episode 142016-08-25
- Season 53 : Episode 152016-10-12
- Season 53 : Episode 162016-10-23
