World records are what bring people to Antarctica. When Colin O’Brady claimed an ‘Impossible First’ skiing solo across Antarctica, it exposed cracks in the club-like polar explorer community.Thomas Bywater looks into what a world first mean to polar explorers - and how far would they go to chase them?With thanks to Fiann Paul, Colin O’Brady and Mark JonesFor more on this series, head to nzherald.co.nz/detourSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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New Zealand's dirty nuclear secret
While Kiwis were protesting for a nuclear-free Pacific, 300 tons of radioactive soil were sailing through New Zealand waters. Thomas Bywater discusses the story of ‘Nukey Poo’, Antarctica’s problematic power plant and New Zealand’s dirty nuclear secret.With thanks to Peter Breen, Ron Regan, the veterans Edwin (Chaddy) Chadwick, Apiha Papuni and Kelly Tako.For more on this series, head to nzherald.co.nz/detourSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A very cold case
Antarctica is the only continent without police, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any crime. When it was discovered in 2000 an Antarctic researcher had been poisoned, it was too late - seven months had passed his colleagues were long gone. Thomas Bywater explores if Rodney Marks was Antarctica's first murder victim?Thanks to David Fisher, Donald Rothwell and the friends and colleagues of Rodney MarksFor more on this series, head to nzherald.co.nz/detourSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Antarctica's baby boom
Being pregnant on an Antarctic research base is banned. So how is it that eleven children were born there in the 1980s? And where are they now? Thomas Bywater explores why it wasn’t a happy accident that Emilio Palma was born in Esperanza Base. With thanks to Horacio Villalobos, Meredith Nash, Damien Venuto, Juan Lucio Palma, Emilio PalmaFor more on this series, head to nzherald.co.nz/detourSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Ice Pact
The Antarctic Treaty is the rulebook to the South Pole. But when it was written sixty years ago, the creep of Antarctic tourism and iceberg harvesting were issues nobody saw coming. As a potential endpoint to the treaty inches closer, and as the south gets busier and heats up, Thomas Bywater questions if these rules at breaking point?With thanks to Ceisha Poirot, Alan Hemmings, Aaron Russ, Donald RothwellFor more on this series, head to nzherald.co.nz/detourSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
From archaeological fraud to New Zealand’s hidden nuclear secret, NZ Herald Travel journalist Thomas Bywater uncovers the mysteries of Earth’s frozen continent in this new podcast series.Full series drops on January 8th.
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