The Island at the Top of the World
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:05:02
for it's the place
where the whales go to die."

:05:06
- We're coming into Dover now, sir.
- Thank you.

:05:09
Sir Anthony, the graveyard of whales
is just a fantasy...

:05:13
a whaler's El Dorado, where he thinks
he's going to find a huge fortune...

:05:16
in whale bone and ambergris.
:05:18
The fact is, it simply doesn't exist.
:05:21
Graveyard of whales
is a legend, nothing more.

:05:23
A legend or not, the graveyard
is what my son went after.

:05:26
It's my son I'm looking for.
:05:32
- Porter, sir?
- Uh, yes. Take our luggage
to the Admiralty Pier.

:05:35
- Very good, sir.
- Sir Anthony...

:05:37
I'm afraid this has to be
the end of the line for me.

:05:39
I'd help if I could.
I know how much this means to you.

:05:42
But you're trying the impossible.
To try to find one man...

:05:46
with nothing more to go on
than a page from an old journal...

:05:49
There is something more.
Donald also left this with the factor.

:05:53
I was hoping
you might know what it was.

:05:58
It's carved bone. It's Eskimo work.
It's quite common in the Arctic.

:06:02
- This one's a kind of a map.
- Map?

:06:06
Well, if I had the right chart,
I could show you how this thing works.

:06:08
My yacht is at the pier.
You can have all the charts you need.

:06:17
See, this pattern
hopefully will correspond
to some part of the shoreline...

:06:20
here on the chart.
:06:24
Look. See how this matches?
:06:27
Now, it's not exactly to scale,
of course.

:06:30
Then this red mark could be
the island we're looking for.

:06:33
If there were such an island.
:06:35
- And why shouldn't there be?
- 'Cause there's no land here.

:06:37
It's just a gigantic frozen sea.
All the explorers agree to that.

:06:41
- Peary, Nansen, all of them.
- And what is Ivarsson's opinion?

:06:49
Of course,
there's a lot they haven't covered.

:06:53
But if there were such an island...
:06:55
if the graveyard of whales
really did exist...

:06:58
The world will never know,
will it?


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