Episode description

Sometimes you just want to get away. And if you’re teaching online you can! Bouvet Island in the Southern Ocean is the place to go. It’s the most remote land on Earth, with the closest neighbor being the Princess Astrid Coast of Antarctica, 1100 miles to the south. Your company will be elephant seals and macaroni penguins -- and the occasional passing scientist. But even here, bivouacked in a shipping container station, with your satellite-connected laptop, you don’t have to work by yourself.

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