How cold is it there? Are there people? How did they get there and what are they up to? Are they eating the dogs?

Pretty farkin'. Yes. Mostly ships. Mostly research. Not any more.

But we dive much deeper into Antarctica we get into in this episode, including some truly macabre history and some downright chilly meteorology.

Sources:

All wikipedia this time

Antarctica

Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration

Far Eastern Party

Discovery Expedition

Douglas Mawson

Amundsen's South Pole expedition

Ernest Shackleton

Fridtjof Nansen

Research stations in Antarctica

Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station

Religion in Antarctica

Religion in space

History of Antarctica

Mount Erebus disaster