Using the Public Library, Netflix, Google Play, or YouTube, watch this film about Antarctica:
Encounters at the End of the World
Directed by Werner Herzog (2007) (for additional details see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093824/ (Links to an external site.) )
13. What are some of the activities that scientists stationed at McMurdo do to amuse themselves?
14- What ‘statistic’ does the linguist/gardener cite for language extinction during his lifetime?
15- Herzog offers commentary on the ‘necessity of adventure’ to the human spirit and then goes on to deride the modern ‘record-setting’ mentality prevalent in first world nations. What do you think about this perspective? Do you share Herzog’s contempt for unusual feats?
16. What is Mt. Erebus and why do you have to keep an eye on the crater while you are working? What type of volcano is Mt. Erebus?
17. What unlikely objects are stashed underneath the magnetic South Pole?
18. Herzog uses human narratives to tell the story of an otherwise vacant continent. Is this an effective way to convey the vast expansive of Antarctica? Do you think the film would have been successful if Herzog had simply made a penguin movie?
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