Antarctica

It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival. Yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. As politicians wrangle over its fate, adventurers come as they have for more than a century, even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. Meanwhile, radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit.