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Accumulates starts to spread out toward the edges of the continent, but the transantarctic mountains form a barrier. so the ice sheet hits the mountains and can't get through. the other thing is there are these really knarly winds that come off, and drop down into the plateau and then rush towards the edges of the continent gushing through these valleys. >> anthony: so it's a fluky micro climate here? >> michael: we call it the banana belt i of antarctica. it's warm, we're coastal. >> anthony: life at lake hoare, considering the limitations and the difficulties, is freakin' luxurious by contin...

Get wipped out. >> michael: when scientist came and first started studying they thought that these soils were sterile, but we've dispelled that myth when the glaciers melt and the streams flow, that's where you find life. >> anthony: so why is this area look like this? where's the ice? how come the ground is sort of soft and spongy? >> byron: the polar plateau where most of the ice accumulates starts to spread out toward the edges of the continent, but the transantarctic mountains form a barrier. so the ice sheet hits the mountains and can't get through. the other thing is there are these real...

The other thing is there are these really knarly winds that come off, and drop down into the plateau and then rush towards the edges of the continent gushing through these valleys. >> anthony: so it's a fluky micro climate here? >> michael: we call it the banana belt i of antarctica. it's warm, we're coastal. >> anthony: life at lake hoare, considering the limitations and the difficulties, is freakin' luxurious by continental standards. out here, by the way, as everywhere on the continent, every bit of waste is separated and collected. one pee's in a bottle and pours it in the barrel, where it...

These really knarly winds that come off, and drop down into the plateau and then rush towards the edges of the continent gushing through these valleys. >> anthony: so it's a fluky micro climate here? >> michael: we call it the banana belt i of antarctica. it's warm, we're coastal. >> anthony: life at lake hoare, considering the limitations and the difficulties, is freakin' luxurious by continental standards. out here, by the way, as everywhere on the continent, every bit of waste is separated and collected. one pee's in a bottle and pours it in the barrel, where it is eventually collected and ...

Whatever we could completely jack up the soils organisms that live below there. >> anthony: oh like that guy? >> byron: yeah, like that dude he's totally -- he's going to get wipped out. >> michael: when scientist came and first started studying they thought that these soils were sterile, but we've dispelled that myth when the glaciers melt and the streams flow, that's where you find life. >> anthony: so why is this area look like this? where's the ice? how come the ground is sort of soft and spongy? >> byron: the polar plateau where most of the ice accumulates starts to spread out toward the ...