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A vast white wilderness stretches across the south of our planet; A giant natural laboratory that has long occupied the human psyche. Antarctica is a continent of remote natural wonder. For brief moments each year this hauntingly beautiful landscape opens up, beckoning scientists and explorers from around the world to investigate its frozen secrets. Antarctica: Journey into the White Desert takes us on a mesmerizing visual adventure into this mysterious continent, introducing us to a team of South African scientists, researchers and explorers who have braved the inhospitable continent in the quest to learn its secrets. South Africa represents the African continent as one of only 12 countries that have permanent bases on Antarctica and is an important international gateway to the great white continent. The film explores South Africa’s role in the greatest wilderness on earth and showcases some of the groundbreaking research that could make the difference to our survival on this planet. Millions of years ago Africa was connected to Antarctica in a land mass known as Gondwanaland. Once again, through the power of film, the vast freezing land of Antarctica will be connected to the mother continent.