Voices from Antarctica

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• Voices from Antarctica 1: Ice Flight

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  28 May 2020

  

  Alison Ballance dons her extreme cold weather clothing for a trip to Antarctica - but getting to the frozen continent can take time. Audio

• Voices from Antarctica 2: Scott Base

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  4 Jun 2020

  

  Alison Ballance has her first day at New Zealand's Antarctic station, Scott Base, and visits the historic Hillary's Hut. Video, Audio

• Voices from Antarctica 3: Flags to physics

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  11 Jun 2020

  

  Keeping Scott Base warm and well-lit no matter the weather outside, and a physics experiment that eavesdrops on messages to submarines. Audio

• Voices from Antarctica 4: Best journey in the world

  18 Jun 2020

  

  Alison Ballance meets a colony of Emperor penguins and their NIWA researchers, and finds out about making water on the frozen continent Audio

• Voices from Antarctica 5: Waiting for Emperors

  25 Jun 2020

  

  Emperor penguin researchers are waiting for tagged birds to return, and an elderly radar system sheds light on a very windy part of the atmosphere. Audio

• Voices from Antarctica 6: Seal songs

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  2 Jul 2020

  

  Alison Ballance eavesdrops on the songs of the world's southern-most mammal, the Weddell seal, and finds out about sea ice. Audio

• Voices from Antarctica 7: What the ice is saying

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  9 Jul 2020

  

  Researchers are using hot water to drill through the Ross ice shelf, to discover what has happened to Antarctic ice during previous periods of warm climates. Audio

• Voices from Antarctica 8: Under the ice

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  16 Jul 2020

  

  Tiny plants that live on the underside of sea ice form an upside-down garden that feeds krill and is the base of the Antarctic food web. Video, Audio