Airdate: Ice Station Antarctica

In Ice Station Antarctica BBC weatherman Peter Gibb makes an emotional return to the British Antarctic Survey’s Halley Research Station, a place he once called home.

His journey starts with an arduous 12-day, 3,000 mile voyage on board the RRS Ernest Shackleton. Delighted to finally arrive at the futuristic research station, Peter marvels at the cutting-edge science done at Halley today: from vital discoveries about how lives on earth are vulnerable to the sun’s activities, to studying interplanetary travel and the threat of man-made climate change.

But the research station’s home is a floating ice shelf that constantly moves and cracks, and the ice shelf has developed a chasm that could cast Halley adrift on a massive iceberg – also making Peter’s journey something of a rescue mission.

Sunday, 24 July at 8.30pm on SBS.