Detour: Antarctica

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Detour: Antarctica

From archaeological fraud to New Zealand’s hidden nuclear secret, NZ Herald Travel journalist Thomas Bywater uncovers the mysteries of Earth’s frozen continent in this new podcast series. Full series drops on January 8th.

  1. Three weeks in a leaky boat

    EPISÓDIO 1

    Three weeks in a leaky boat

    Punta Arenas is an Antarctic Gateway city. It has trapped the likes of Shackleton, Henry Worsley and other polar explorers - but, more recently, 2000 cruise passengers were stuck here at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Amongst them was NZ Herald...

    31min
  2. Arrowheads in Antarctica

    EPISÓDIO 2

    Arrowheads in Antarctica

    In the 1970s, when arrowheads were discovered in Antarctica, it sparked an archaeological mystery. Were they the first sign of an untapped history of the frozen continent, or part of a conspiracy to rewrite Antarctic history.Thomas Bywater talks to...

    32min
  3. The Ice Pact

    EPISÓDIO 3

    The Ice Pact

    The Antarctic Treaty is the rulebook to the South Pole. But when it was written sixty years ago, the creep of Antarctic tourism and iceberg harvesting were issues nobody saw coming. As a potential endpoint to the treaty inches closer, and as the south...

    38min
  4. Antarctica's baby boom

    EPISÓDIO 4

    Antarctica's baby boom

    Being pregnant on an Antarctic research base is banned. So how is it that eleven children were born there in the 1980s? And where are they now? Thomas Bywater explores why it wasn’t a happy accident that Emilio Palma was born in Esperanza Base. With...

    35min
  5. A very cold case

    EPISÓDIO 5

    A very cold case

    Antarctica is the only continent without police, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any crime. When it was discovered in 2000 an Antarctic researcher had been poisoned, it was too late - seven months had passed his colleagues were long gone. Thomas...

    37min
  6. New Zealand's dirty nuclear secret

    EPISÓDIO 6

    New Zealand's dirty nuclear secret

    While Kiwis were protesting for a nuclear-free Pacific, 300 tons of radioactive soil were sailing through New Zealand waters. Thomas Bywater discusses the story of ‘Nukey Poo’, Antarctica’s problematic power plant and New Zealand’s dirty nuclear...

    30min
  7. The quest to be first

    EPISÓDIO 7

    The quest to be first

    World records are what bring people to Antarctica. When Colin O’Brady claimed an ‘Impossible First’ skiing solo across Antarctica, it exposed cracks in the club-like polar explorer community.Thomas Bywater looks into what a world first mean to polar...

    38min
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From archaeological fraud to New Zealand’s hidden nuclear secret, NZ Herald Travel journalist Thomas Bywater uncovers the mysteries of Earth’s frozen continent in this new podcast series. Full series drops on January 8th.

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