Throughout history, when humans discover new land around the world, they have attempted

to claim it as their own.

They colonize it and live off of that land to create their own communities there.

That history is here in the United States.

You can find that same story in countries throughout Africa, Europe, Australia, within

small islands off the coast of Asia, the Middle East.

And when you really think of it, almost every country can tell a similar story.

But when you look at a map, there are places around the globe that do not have large populations

of people residing there.

Antarctica, Greenland, Mongolia, Siberia, the Sahara Desert, and Northern Canada just

to name a couple of them.

What all of these places have in common are that their resources are hard to come by and

it is difficult for humans to live there.

So this brings me to my question, why on earth would anyone want to colonize Ringel Island?

An island known to be a polar bear's nesting ground, a place that regularly reaches negative

degree temperatures, gale force winds, and is cut off from the rest of the world half

of the year by miles and miles of ice.

Welcome to National Park after dark.

Hi everyone, welcome back to National Park after dark.

I hope you had a great holiday, good to be back, and I am so ready for this episode because

Cassie has been talking it up for the last like two weeks.

I will just say right off the bat here is we are sit down, get comfortable because we are

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