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Polar explorations [digital videodisc] / producer/editor, Derek Knight, Courtney Westphal ; director, Jonathan D. Leven.

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Chantilly, Virginia : Teaching Company, c2015.

Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration.

Great courses (DVD). Better living.

4 videodiscs (approximately 660 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Disc 1. A passion for the poles -- Seasons at the poles -- Connections between the poles -- The saga of Arctic exploration -- The icy heart of polar seas -- Geology of the Arctic Circle.

Disc 2. Science and spirits of the Arctic sky -- Indigenous peoples of the Arctic -- Greenland and Arctic Islands -- Terrestrial mammals in the changing Arctic -- Seabirds of the Arctic and Antarctic -- Marine mammals, from whales to walruses.

Disc 3. The race for the South Pole -- Geological features of Antarctica -- Antarctica's window on the universe -- Diving under polar ice -- Resource development in polar seas -- South Georgia and Macquarie.

Disc 4. Living among the penguins -- Antarctica : a continent for science -- Basics of polar photography -- Photographing polar landscapes.

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