Ecology at the Edge of the World Documentary

Ecology at the Edge of the World

Dr Claudia Colesie, a terrestrial ecologist, travelled with a team of scientists to Antarctica. Their destination was the unexplored Zavodovski Island, said to be one of the stormiest places on Earth.

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