The Polar Explorer

2011 FESTIVAL
60 min.
Filmmaker: Mark Terry.
From the winners of the 2010 ACFF Audience Choice Award comes a new film on the latest climate change discoveries being made at both ends of the earth – The Arctic and Antarctica. Sought by explorers for centuries as a possible trade route, Canada’s Northwest Passage was first navigated by Norwegian Roald Amundsen in 1903–1906. In the recent past, Arctic sea ice prevented regular marine passage, but climate change has reduced this ice, making the waterways more navigable. The Polar Explorer explores the Passage on a three-week scientific expedition taking place on the aptly named icebreaker, the Amundsen.
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