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Frozen Planet 1.01 — To the Ends of the Earth

Over one third of our planet is frozen, and yet the icy worlds of the Arctic and Antarctic are as alien to most of us as the surface of another planet. They are places of superlatives; from ice caps that hold nearly 80% of our planet’s fresh water, to frozen forests that encircle the entire globe.

These are places that feed our imaginations. Places that seem to be borrowed from fairy tales. They are dominated and shaped by the ice, both by its coming and by its going.

This is our planet’s last true wilderness.

(via e-a-r-t-h)