Every summer, over 40 million penguins take to the southern ocean to feed. They are joined by thousands of whales. Minkes are the most numerous. They all come here to harvest the richest ocean on earth. Carrying on south, we have our first our glimpse of the frozen continent. Southern humpbacks of travelling four thousand miles from the equator, are finally arriving in Antartic.
Humans have long felt the lure of this mysterious world. Yet it was only a hundred years ago that the first explorers walked inland and were confronted by the highest, driest and coldest territory on earth. Every year the continent is transformed, as the sea ice that surrounds it begins to disappear. This melt halves the size of Antartic. It's the most spectacular seasonal change occuring anywhere on our planet.
人類很久以來已受到這個神秘世界的感召。然而僅在一百年前,第一位探險家走進內陸,迎接地球上最高、最干及最冷的土地的挑戰。由于圍繞著它的海冰開始消失,每年這片大陸都在變化。南極在逐漸融化。這是發生在我們的星球上最壯觀的季節變化。