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Arctic and Antarctic- soft spoken bedtime learning
At the top and bottom of our planet lie two remarkable polar worlds: the Arctic in the north, and Antarctica in the south. Both are wrapped in ice and gripped by extreme cold — yet they couldn't be more different.
In this soft-spoken episode, we drift from the Arctic Ocean — an ocean surrounded by land, where polar bears roam the ice and Indigenous peoples like the Inuit and Sámi have lived for thousands of years — to Antarctica, a continent surrounded by ocean: the coldest place on Earth, home to penguins, seals, and the scientists who study them.
Settle in, close your eyes, and let the…
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