Re: Modern Antarctica and Cretaceous parrots

[mkDragon <shabut@earthlink.net>]

"Williams, Tim" wrote:
> 
> Daniel Bensen wrote:
> 
> >Dogs on every continent but Antarctica (and I'm not even sure about >that),
> 
> The Madrid Protocol (Oct 1991; effective Jan 1998) bans the keeping and use
> of dogs on Antarctica, and most (and perhaps by now, all) countries that
> have research bases in Antarctica have removed their dogs.  I know Australia
> and New Zealand relocated their Antarctic huskies to Minnesota.  However,
> there may be dogs running wild in Antarctica - brought there by twentieth
> century explorers.
> 

        There is an older movie called "Antarctica" that follows the lives of
some sled dogs left by a Japanese expedition for the next expedition to
use.  The next expedition never arrived. 

        The story follows the dogs through an Antarctic winter.  Some of the
dogs even survived!  The photography is magnificent, the music is by
Vangelis, and the story is riveting.  I would recommend it. 

        mkDragon



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