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99% of the Arctic's fresh water ice is in Greenland.
北極地區99%的淡水冰在格陵蘭
It's a staggeringly big ice sheet,
這是塊相當巨大的冰原
but it's just a drop in the ocean
但和南極比起來
compared to that at the southern end of our planet.
就只是滄海一粟了
In Antarctica, there is ten times more ice,
南極的冰比北極多十倍
by far the largest concentration of ice on Earth.
是目前地球上冰量最多的地方
Our exploration of the Antarctic
我們對于南極的探索
only began a little over 100 years ago.
始于一百多年前
The study of ice retreat here was unwittingly begun
關于冰山銳減的研究
on an expedition led by the great early explorer
始于早期偉大探索家歐內斯特·沙克爾頓
Ernest Shackleton.
領導的一次不為人知的探險
In 1916, after their expedition boat was crushed and sunk by ice,
1916年 考察船撞毀陷入冰川
Shackleton and two companions
沙克爾頓和他的兩名同伴
set off to summon help in a tiny boat.
劃了艘小船出去尋求援助
They sailed over 800 miles across the Southern Ocean
它們在南大洋航行了八百多英里
to the island of South Georgia, on the edge of the Antarctic.
到達了南極邊緣的南喬治亞島
Near starving and dressed in rags, the three men
饑腸轆轆 衣衫襤褸的三個人
walked across the ice sheet at the centre of the island,
穿越過島中央的茫茫冰原
knowing there was a whaling base
他們知道
on the opposite coast where they could summon help.
可以向對面海岸的捕鯨隊呼救
