Detour: Antarctica - Seven stories from the southern continent

This week's discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance has been described as the most significant since the Titanic. putting the spotlight on the frozen continent of Antarctica.

In a major Herald podcast series, Detour: Antarctica, Thomas Bywater goes in search of the continent at the end of the world, including the Kiwi connections to Shackleton's ill-fated voyage. To subscribe to Detour: Antarctica, visit iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Less than sixty years separate arrival at the South Pole from the first steps on the moon.

White, desolate and empty - in most peoples' minds, it might as well be another planet.

In just over a century Antarctica has racked up 11 babies, a nuclear disaster and maybe a murder.

The 14 million square kilometres is far from the empty frozen continent you might have been led to believe.