Frozen Planet - fascinating facts

Frozen Planet - fascinating facts

The filming of the amazing BBC series Frozen Planet broke many records for the Natural History Unit. The coldest, the oldest, the first – read these astonishing facts here. 

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Published: August 4, 2011 at 11:31 am

The coldest, the oldest, the first – the filming of the amazing BBC series broke many records for the Natural History Unit.

days filming in the field – a new record

hours diving beneath the ice – at temperatures down to -2C

dehydrated meals eaten

days at temperatures below -15C.

fur seals accompanied during filming

visit to the North Pole by Sir David Attenborough – his first time

seabirds filmed in the Bering Sea near Alaska – the greatest concentration on the planet

lifespan of the woolly bear caterpillar, the world’s most long-lived, filmed on Ellesmere Island: it freezes in winter and resumes eating after thawing in spring

weeks spent in the company of naïve Arctic wolves with no previous human contact

Adélie penguins in the Cape Crozier colony filmed during peak breeding season.

temperatures experienced during filming in Yakutsk, Siberia – the coldest city on Earth

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