Never-Before-Seen Footage Uncovers Antarctica’s First Scientific Missions

During the Cold War, Antarctica was primed for conquest. Here’s how it became an international science laboratory.

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Written & Produced by Lauren Ellis
Edited by Lee Cofer Mould

[BboyMeTaLhEaDiBREAK]

Just gonna skip over the fact that they've been exploring vast valleys, lakes& mountain ranges for the last 70 years but we see nothing? There's probably so much more out there than we're told.

[mikemower]

Its great how globes show Antarctica as a small island and google maps make it compareable in size to all other continents combined.

[coreytaylor]

i love that you can tell exactly from what period of time the comments came from on certain videos

[lylemccullough]

Remember what you do when you observe something with greater and greater intensity, you heat things up

[theaurafist]

3:20 I didn't know Vegeta went to Antarctica too.

[ruskreeder]

I highly commend those who put this together. It took a lot of work. You had to find all the video, get up a script, and edit. This took a lot of work. My hat goes off to you.

[muramasa]

Penguins are a threat, they r plotting something .

[arghadeepsaha]

Thank you team seeker for collecting these briiliant things. Awesome inspiring video.

[rayzelito]

Satellites and google earth get everything else but we still can't get a clear image of the land beyond Antarctica

[mpaul]

I‘d love to see pictures of the green areas Admiral Byrd discovered.

[dawnbuckner]

Wish everyone could visit Antarctica at least once in their life. See for themselves and learn from experience that it is a vast icy island.

[PavelSikun]

Oh, I thought that was a VOX video.

You guys surprised me with the quality of this one.

[dashtothemax]

I'd love to live there and help with any research being done.

[michaeldoster]

Beautiful photography! Makes me cold! Thx.

[DavidHarris-qnem]

Seeker...do a video on why places in Antarctica are blanked out on Google maps

[byGDur]

The music and the images are putt very well together imo :)

[silkworm]

Really impressed with the quality of this mini-documentary. Well done!

[bryandavis]

Wish we could just all go and explore it ourselves. Get all our questions answered.

[JackDrewitt]

These were not the first scientific missions, and it wasn't the first time nations of the world united for science either, before the IGY there were two International Polar Years plus many many individual scientific missions/expeditions.

[AhmadEdinHodzic]

We should all go and explore antarctica!