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Archaeology - 2007
Imagining the Arctic and Antarctic Read Transcript
26/07/2007
The polar regions have been in the news a lot lately, be it in the documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, or with images of polar bears perched on melting icebergs -- it's also International Polar Year.
There is something very romantic about the poles, isn't there? They occupy a special place in our imaginations. Antarctica is described as the only true wilderness and is the coldest, driest and windiest place on earth, the Arctic on the other hand has a complex human history from the Saami to the Inuit, but because of the threat of global warming their destinies -- and ours -- are linked.
So, this morning we are joined by three eminent polar writers: a naturalist, historian and archaeologist who have all been either to the Arctic or Antarctic or both.
