Ross Island, Antarctica: this volcanic land mass at the bottom of the world is the site of one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics. It’s here that in May of 2018 NASA scientists working on the Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna – otherwise known as ANITA – detected an anomaly that defies the laws of physics: cosmic rays which normally rain down on Earth from space were instead erupting out of the ground. ibid.
Rumours of extraterrestrial activity in Antarctica have circulated for years. ibid.
Is it possible that online researchers using satellite technology actually located the crashed remnants of an extraterrestrial vehicle and the opening to an underground alien base? ibid.
This afternoon we’re going to shoot the scene where Scott gets off the boat on to the ice flow and he’s sees the lion … Monty Python’s Flying Circus s2e10, Scott of the Antarctic, BBC 1970
These images taken under the ice in Ross Sea in Antarctica was the reason I wanted to go to this continent. Encounters at the End of the World, 2007
The Ross Sea is the largest bay in the continent. ibid.
There are few places harder to get to in this world but there ain’t anywhere that’s harder to live. The average temperature here at the bottom of the Earth is a balmy fifty eight degrees below. That’s when the sun is out. March of the Penguins, 2005
For millions of years there have made their home on the darkest, driest, windiest and coldest continent on Earth. And they’ve done so pretty much alone … This is a story about love. ibid.
The emperor penguin is technically a bird. ibid.
Their long march will begin just as it has for thousands of years. ibid.
Here they will mate in relative safety. They are now far from the water’s edge. ibid.
It is the penguin male who will attend the couple’s single egg … He will do this for more than two months. ibid.
There’s something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it.
Physicists don’t know what it is exactly. But they do know it’s some sort of cosmic ray – a high-energy particle that’s blasted its way through space, into the Earth, and back out again. But the particles physicists know about – the collection of particles that make up what scientists call the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics – shouldn’t be able to do that. Sure, there are low-energy neutrinos that can pierce through miles upon miles of rock unaffected. But high-energy neutrinos, as well as other high-energy particles, have ‘large cross-sections’. That means that they’ll almost always crash into something soon after zipping into the Earth and never make it out the other side.
And yet, since March 2016, researchers have been puzzling over two events in Antarctica where cosmic rays did burst out from the Earth, and were detected by NASA’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) – a balloon-borne antenna drifting over the southern continent. (Particle & Antarctic) Scientific American online 29 September 2018, ‘Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica’s Ice, And They Might Shatter Modern Physics’
Antarctica is a land of secrets and great mystery. The Real Secrets Hidden in Antarctica … Revealed, Truthstream Media 2017
Obama Sends Biden on ‘Special Mission’ to Antarctica. ibid. The Huffington Post online article 22 January 2009
So Exactly Why Is Bill Gates in Antarctica? ibid. online news article Wilson Rothman 26 February 2010
Supernatural occurrences, ancient alien civilisations, hollow earths and even races of human hybrids … bases are supposed to be located … There have been many rumours about underground bases … Were there any banned missile tests? ibid.
Lake Vostok is nearly as big as Lake Ontario … The confirmed discovery of a huge magnetic anomaly on the east coast of this underground lake. ibid.
Of great strategic significance. The place doesn’t just lie idle and ownerless … Major military forces remain embedded there. ibid.
Nazis and Japanese Reported to Have Been in the Antarctic; US Expedition Says in Boston. ibid. Associated Press report
It is very hard to find any mentions of or any information at all about the Maudheim [UK] bases in newspapers after the mid-1950s. ibid.
The South Pole is like a 200-foot wall of ice straight up Game of Thrones style. Behind the Curve, Mike Sargent, flat-earther, Netflix 2018
In 1902 an expedition set out from Scotland to Antarctica in the name of Science. It was led by a man called William Speirs Bruce. In 2011 I agreed to retrace Bruce’s journey to Antarctica, following in the footsteps of a scientific explorer and photographer who has become all but lost to history. Neil Oliver, The Last Explorers s1e2: William Speirs Bruce
After Ben Nevis he continued his cold-weather training with expeditions to the Arctic. He toured the country giving illustrated lectures that brought the polar regions to the public for the very first time. ibid.
Bruce documented it all making a remarkable collection of images. ibid.
The Royal Research Ship Discovery: she set sail on a voyage to the last uncharted continent on the planet: Antarctica. A journey that would attract the world’s most famous explorers. Discovery was the first ever purpose built scientific vessel, and she ignited a global passion for exploration. Rob Bell, Great British Ships s2e3: Scott & Shackleton
A ship conceived for one mission: an expedition that would capture the imagination of the world: a journey to the uncharted South Pole. ibid.
Antarctica: the world’s most remote and inhospitable continent. This is the story of a team of scientists who are trying to get to Thwaites, the so-called Doomsday Glacier. What happens to Thwaites affects us all because as it melts it will drive up sea levels around the world. Our World: Journey to the Doomsday Glacier, BBC 2020
This continent contains 90% of the world’s ice. ibid.
Global warming has changed the wind patterns and sea currents. ibid.
It is perhaps one of the most famous expeditions of the twentieth century: Ernest Shackleton’s disastrous mission to cross Antarctica. When Shackleton’s Ship Endurance got snared in polar ice, the mission became an all-out fight for survival. The ship disappeared beneath the ice … What happened to Shackleton’s lost ship. Can we find it. History’s Greatest Mysteries with Laurence Fishburne s1e2: Endurance – The Hunt for Shackleton’s Ice Ship, History 2020
An expedition is heading into the frozen waters of the Antarctic. ibid.
Antarctica: the most extreme place on Earth. Temperatures reach 100 below. Wind whips across it at 200 miles per hour. This frozen continent surrounds the South Pole. It’s a vast land entirely covered in ice. Somewhere in these frozen seas lies the holy grail of ship wrecks: The Endurance. ibid.
Down here the water is so cold the wooden ship is likely to be perfectly preserved. ibid.
Flying in from across the globe is an international team of ship hunters, explorers and scientists. Two years in the planning and over $250m of cutting-edge technology. ibid.
‘The wind’s unrelenting. And the snow driven like needles into your face.’ ibid. Conrad Anker, explorer
The Endurance is completely stuck [Weddell sea]. But she’s 550 miles from where she will finally sink. ibid.
Though the crew was trapped, they had reason to believe they would escape. ibid.
Betrayed: Was Scott’s Antarctic expedition sabotaged by one of its fellow explorers? … Scott’s quest ends in tragedy. Now, newly uncovered evidence suggests Scott and his team weren’t just battling the elements. Did betrayal end Britain’s race to the South Pole? Conspiracies Decoded s1e7, Discovery 2022