"It is such a remote environment"

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On Monday 27th January, two hundred years ago, the continent of Antarctica was discovered. Home to the South Pole, it was found by Fabien von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazare as part of a Russian expedition. And since then, the continent has been home to some of the world's leading scientific research. That has meant people have had to live, and work there. Someone whose done just that, is former BBC Weatherman, Maidenhead's Peter Gibbs.