Region code: Zone 4.
Released: 2009. TV Standard: PAL. Rated: E - Exempt from classification.
DVD. Sourced from NZ.
Award-winning, international filmmaker NHNZ has enthralled millions of viewers for more than three decades with their documentaries. In collaboration with TVNZ, NHNZ now makes their highly acclaimed Wild South programmes available on DVD for the very first time.
Wild South Winter Special contains the documentaries:
SOLID WATER LIQUID ROCK (1993): Ice and fire meet dramatically on the world's southern most active volcano – Antarctica's Mount Erebus. Dare to explore this most extreme landscape, revealed as never before.
THE LONGEST NIGHT (1992): Meet a small team of Kiwis wintering at New Zealand's Scott Base. Their highs and lows offer an insight into one of the strangest and most intense experiences for any humans – living through Antarctica's longest night.
THE CRYSTAL OCEAN (1999): As the sun leaves Antarctica, floating palaces of ice become trapped in a frozen sea. This visually breathtaking documentary explores the dramatic cycle of freeze and thaw, life and death, that is part of the greatest natural event on the planet.