The Icecap Climate - Secrets of World Climate #12

The coldest places on earth, where 99% of the Earth's freshwater lies, locked up in ice sheets kilometers deep. A land of ice, snow, glaciers, freezing winds, and bitter cold.
This is Greenland. This is Antarctica. This is the icecap.

🕐CHAPTERS🕖
👉 0:00 Opening Montage
👉1:08 Intro and Titles
👉2:11 What is the Icecap?
👉3:33 Alpine Icecap
👉3:55 Arctic and Greenland
👉5:32 Antarctica
👉6:38 Katabatic Winds
👉7:06 Icecap is a Desert
👉7:59 Vegetation and Fauna
👉8:45 Seasons in the Icecap
👉9:07 Human Settlement
👉9:43 World Record Temperatures
👉10:30 Series Closing Montage
👉12:16 Summary of Global Climate Zones

The twelfth and final episode in a unique series exploring all the major climate zones of the world focuses in full high-definition video on real places in each climate zone. In this geography documentary, we show this part of the world in its full beauty, and uncover the secrets of why it is that way and show you the lands and settlements that lie within.

The distinguishing feature of the icecap climate is that temperatures remain below freezing all year round. This means no vegetation at all. It would be a totally lifeless place was it not for various species of penguins toughing it out in the most hostile climate on earth, free from any predators.

Winters here are extremely cold and lie in total darkness for months at a time. The coldest recorded temperatures on earth lie in the high icecap of East Antarctica, with temperatures below 90°C on record.

There are no human settlements here, beyond the various research stations populated by scientists from various countries, with the largest being McMurdo Station, and other notables, the Scott-Amundsen South Pole Station, and the Russian Vostok station.

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Narrated, Written, and Produced by
B.J.Ranson

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