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I just want to get in there and give him a little bit of a scratch on the stomach. And I think he wants me too, as well. Mind you, that's where Steve Irwin got into trouble, getting too close to animals...

– Marcus Lush says hello to a seal, in episode three

They're not just sitting around waiting for their agents to call for their next chip commercial. These penguins lead tremendously busy lives.

– Marcus Lush on the penguins of Cape Bird, in episode three

Holy guacamole ... that's incredible! I mean, I knew I'd see penguins but I didn't realise there would be that many in one valley. I just thought there'd be four or five in a skody nest but that would have to be one of, or perhaps the best thing I've ever seen in my life, and I'm not one that's prone to exaggeration but that is phenomenal [...] There's just so many damn penguins!

– Marcus Lush reacts incredulously to the penguins on Cape Bird, in episode three

... I love it because it shows Scott courageous and determined and adventurous — not starving, defeated and alone. It's Scott as he lived, not as he died.

– Marcus Lush on the statue of Robert Scott in Christchurch, in episode four

They're short of water ... so the limit for the shower: you can only be in there for three minutes. If you're in there for more than three minutes an alarm goes off for 10 seconds. If you're still not out, the house maidens come in and whip you with alkathene pipe.

– Marcus Lush waxes lyrical on showering at Scott Base, in episode four

You don’t come to Antarctica for a good time … the reason you come here is to throw yourself at the continent and see how you cope.

– Marcus Lush in episode one

When the first atomic bomb went off, you go out anywhere on the Polar Plateau and you pick up that first radiation that circulated right around the world. The story of what we as humans are doing to the world that we’re living in is locked in here very quickly after it happens somewhere else, and this is where it both serves as a signaller for what we’re doing but it’s also telling us in the same way what’s happened in the past and where we may be going in the future.

– Jim Cowie, from the Antarctica Geological Drilling Project, in episode one