NOVA

Season 11, Episode 2

Episode Title: Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier

Air Date: 1984-01-31

Overview:

An astronaut once observed a great white light shining out from the bottom of our world: Antarctica, the ice-covered continent we are only just beginning to understand. NOVA visits this wilderness of ice, larger than the United States and Mexico combined, whose only warm-blooded residents are seals, skuas, penguins and scientists.