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Mental Floss Presents: The Quest for the North Pole - Bonus Episode 4: Live from Greenland

Bonus Episode 4: Live from Greenland

Mental Floss Presents: The Quest for the North Pole

01/12/22 • 21 min

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In the final bonus episode of The Quest for the North Pole, we travel to far northwestern Greenland to see the changing Arctic firsthand. We explore the long history of this area, from its settlement by Indigenous people, to the expeditions of Peary and Rasmussen, to secret military operations during the Cold War. With scientists from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, we visit a climate-monitoring station atop the Greenland ice sheet, which gathers the data scientists need to model future changes in the Arctic—and the rest of our planet. Along the way, we'll see amazing wildlife, get frostbite, and realize how lucky we are not to be man-hauling thousand-pound sledges across the ice.

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01/12/22 • 21 min

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Mental Floss Presents: The Quest for the North Pole - Bonus Episode 4: Live from Greenland

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The Quest for the North Pole is a production of I Heart radio and mental floss. I'm seven hundred and fifty miles above the Arctic Circle at the very place where explorers had launched their quests for the North Pole more than a century ago. Before me lies the huge Greenland Ice Sheet, the world's second biggest expanse of ice after Antarctica. It's covered in a layer of spotless snow and rises from where I stand up to the horizon, where it meets

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