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Article: The tip of the iceberg. (Cleaning Up Antarctica).
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- Geographical
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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In 1986, while polar traveller and environmentalist Robert Swan was attempting his extraordinary feat of walking to the South Pole, he made a bargain with himself that if he ever got out alive, he would return one day to give something back. Over the following years, he became preoccupied with another expedition, which took him to the North Pole in 1989. But after giving a speech to world leaders at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, Swan was challenged to bring a positive achievement to the event in Johannesburg ten years later. The opportunity to fulfil his pledge presented itself in 1997 when a group of children on a UNESCO-funded educational project to Antarctica noticed a ...
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