Series: 52 Episodes

Program Length: half-hour (24:00 min)

Program Description:

In this dramatic barren landscape on the west coast of Newfoundland, naturalist Sue Ellen Fast finds some surprising stories of our earth's geological past. She discovers the Tablelands, a World Heritage Site, where a portion of the earth's mantle (usually 5 kilometers below the crust) has been thrust up to the surface. As she finds out, only very few plants have learned to adapt to its toxic, heavy metal environment. Sue Ellen also takes a boat ride through a glacial sculpted fresh-water fjord which has been cut off from the sea. And on the high arctic tundra of Gros Morne Mountain she meets an arctic hare, a ptarmigan, and some caribou which live in this barren land created by glaciers and climate.