Foreign Correspondent: May 5

On Foreign Correspondent reporter Eric Campbell gains rare permission to travel around King George Island in Antarctica, visiting the Russian, Chinese, Chilean and South Korean bases.

King George Island has been described as one of the strangest places on the planet. Located at the far north tip of Antarctica at the very bottom of the world, it’s the closest thing this southernmost continent has to an international town, complete with a school, a post office and bizarrely, a Russian Orthodox church.

Every summer its numbers swell as some of the world’s top international scientists from more than a dozen countries travel to research bases dotted across the island.

Whether it’s shooting darts at elephant seals or pinning down penguins, Foreign Correspondent has been invited to experience a side of Antarctica that is rarely seen and find out what life is really like on this wild frontier.

8pm Tuesday ABC.