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What Do You Eat in Antarctica?

In Antarctica, it’s so cold that the average person needs to consume between 3,200 and 5,000 calories a day. And because the continent is frozen, no food grows there naturally. So how does the population of scientists and support personnel, hundreds of whom every year visit Antarctica’s largest research base, McMurdo Station, stay fed?
Season 1 Episode 8 Length 12:50 Premiere: 04/22/20

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Season 1 Episodes

Antarctica’s Penguins Taught Us Surprising Life Lessons

S1 E10 Length 14:04 Premiere Date 05/20/20

Exploring Antarctica's Active Volcano Mt. Erebus

S1 E9 Length 07:28 Premiere Date 05/06/20

What Do You Eat in Antarctica?

S1 E8 Length 12:50 Premiere Date 04/22/20

Why Don’t Fish Freeze in Antarctica?

S1 E7 Length 12:01 Premiere Date 04/07/20

Where Does the Poop in Antarctica Go?

S1 E6 Length 13:14 Premiere Date 03/25/20

Exploring Antarctica's Threatened Glaciers (with a Robot)

S1 E5 Length 10:39 Premiere Date 03/10/20

What is it Like to Live in Antarctica?

S1 E4 Length 09:41 Premiere Date 02/27/20

Why is this Antarctic Glacier “Bleeding?”

S1 E3 Length 10:01 Premiere Date 02/13/20

How Antarctica’s Cutest Baby Seals Grow Up

S1 E2 Length 10:50 Premiere Date 02/06/20

Antarctica: Journey to the Bottom of the Earth

S1 E1 Length 14:10 Premiere Date 01/29/20

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