Terra Antarctica, Re-Discovering the Seventh Continent
- American live action tv episode length film, 2009, NR, 49 minutes, spoken word is English.
- IMDB: 6.9/10.0 from 9 users
- Rotten Tomatoes: 'No reviews yet,' and no audience ratings.
- Written and directed by Jon Bowermaster.
- Stars Jon Bowermaster.
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- Ice. Penguins. Seals. Broken ships from a century ago. Ice. Snow.
- The claim was that each winter, the size of Antarctica grows by 7 million square miles.
- Warming: average temperatures up 5 to 9 degrees over the last 50 years. Rather imprecise.
- Warming means more snow, mostly wet snow, plus flatter light, which is bad for climbing.
- The stench of penguin guano. Nice.
- The Chilean base is military personnel only, which is against the agreements made in the 1950s.
- Kayaking in waters with broken ice. Accelerating total ice loss. A ten day stretch of continual rain, which helps erode the glaciers more quickly.
- The UK, Chile, and Argentina have made new and conflicting claims on big portions of the continent.
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- Camera work: good; sound: good. Screenplay: OK. It's just that there is nothing new except the pictures. Way too many pictures of old men in kayaks is not all that interesting.
- One sentence summary: The pictures are worth seeing, but don't expect great content or any new outlook.
- Three stars of five.
- For a much better documentary, see 'Chasing Ice'
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