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The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central ___MASK84___ seven - part serial , written by Trevor Griffiths based on the ___MASK63___ Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford . The ___MASK63___ is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F . Scott ( played by Martin Shaw ) and his Norwegian rival in polar exploration , Roald Amundsen ( played by Sverre Anker Ousdal ) in their attempts to reach the South ___MASK64___ . The series ran for seven episodes and starred a wide range of UK and Norwegian character actors as well as featuring some famous names , such as Max von Sydow , Richard Wilson , Sylvester McCoy , Brian Dennehy , and Pat Roach . It also featured performances early in their careers by Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant . Subsequently Huntford ' s ___MASK63___ was republished under the same name . The ___MASK63___ put forth the point of view that Amundsen ' s success in reaching the South ___MASK64___ was abetted by much superior planning , whereas errors by Scott ( notably including the reliance on man - hauling instead of sled dogs ) ultimately resulted in the death of him and his companions . Trevor Griffiths ( born 4 ___MASK31___ 1935 , Ancoats , Manchester ), is an English dramatist . The North ___MASK64___ , also known as the Geographic North ___MASK64___ or Terrestrial North ___MASK64___ , is ( subject to the caveats explained below ) defined as the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth ' s axis of rotation meets its surface . St Antony ' s ___MASK49___ is one of the constituent colleges of the ___MASK93___ of Oxford in England . Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden , St Antony ' s is one of the most cosmopolitan of the ___MASK93___ of Oxford ' s colleges and is considered to be a centre of excellence for study and research in the fields of international relations , ___MASK53___ , politics , and area studies . The college ' s areas of specialist study include Europe , Russia and the former Soviet states , Latin America , the Middle East , Africa , Japan , China , and South and South East Asia . The Observer is a British ___MASK26___ , published on Sundays . In the same place on the political spectrum as its sister papers " The Guardian " and " The Guardian Weekly ", whose parent ___MASK4___ Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993 , it claims to take a social liberal or social democratic line on most issues . First published in 1791 , it is the world ' s oldest Sunday ___MASK26___ . Flekkefjord is the westernmost ___MASK71___ of the ___MASK32___ ___MASK94___ of Sørlandet . Flekkefjord is approximately midway between the cities of Kristiansand and Stavanger , located along European ___MASK69___ E39 and the Sørlandet ___MASK28___ . Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen ( 16 ___MASK12___ 1872  c . 18 ___MASK1___ 1928 ) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions . He led the Antarctic ___MASK92___ of 1910  12 which was the first to reach the South ___MASK64___ , on 14 ___MASK44___ 1911 . In 1926 , he was the first ___MASK92___ leader for the air ___MASK92___ to the North ___MASK64___ . Norway (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom of Norway , is a sovereign and unitary ___MASK57___ whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard . The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub - Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom . Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land . Until 1814 , the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands ( since 1035 ), Greenland ( 1261 ), and Iceland ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän . Manchester is a major ___MASK21___ and ___MASK52___ borough in Greater Manchester , ___MASK27___ , with a population of 514 , 414 . It lies within the United Kingdom ' s second - most populous urban area , with a population of 2 . 55 million . Manchester is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south , the Pennines to the north and east and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation . The local authority is Manchester ___MASK59___ . Sverre Anker Ousdal ( born 18 ___MASK12___ 1944 ) is a Norwegian actor born in Flekkefjord , Norway . Martin Shaw ( born 21 ___MASK87___ 1945 ) is an English actor . He is known for his roles in the ___MASK14___ " The Professionals ", " The Chief ", " Judge John Deed " and " Inspector George Gently ". He has also acted on stage and in ___MASK6___ , and has narrated numerous audiobooks and presented various ___MASK14___ , including the 2006 series "". The South ___MASK64___ , also known as the Geographic South ___MASK64___ or Terrestrial South ___MASK64___ , is one of the two points where the Earth ' s axis of rotation intersects its surface . It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North ___MASK64___ . An ___MASK61___ ( or talking ___MASK63___ ) is a recording of a text being read . A reading of the complete text is noted as " unabridged ", while readings of a reduced version , or abridgement of the text are labeled as " abridged ". Inspector George Gently ( also known as George Gently for the pilot and first ___MASK42___ ) is a British ___MASK84___ crime ___MASK46___ ___MASK42___ produced by Company Pictures for BBC One , set in the 1960s and loosely based on some of the " Inspector Gently " novels written by Alan Hunter . The ___MASK42___ features Martin Shaw as the eponymous Inspector , Lee Ingleby as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus , and Simon Hubbard and Lisa McGrillis in supporting roles as police constables for the fictitious North East Police Constabulary . Ancoats is an inner ___MASK21___ area of Manchester , North West ___MASK27___ , next to the Northern Quarter and the northern part of Manchester ___MASK3___ . ___MASK95___ Huntford ( born R . Horwitch in 1927 ) is an author , principally of biographies of Polar explorers . He lives in Cambridge , and was formerly Scandinavian correspondent of " The Observer ", also ___MASK58___ as their winter sports correspondent . He was the 1986  87 Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony ' s College , Oxford . Judge John ___MASK25___ is a British legal ___MASK46___ ___MASK14___ produced by the BBC in association with One - Eyed Dog for BBC One . It was created by G . F . Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Justice Sir John ___MASK25___ , a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him . It also stars Jenny Seagrove as the barrister Jo Mills QC , frequently the object of ___MASK25___ ' s desire . A pilot episode was broadcast on 9 January 2001 , followed by the first full series on 26 November 2001 . The sixth and last series concluded on 18 January 2007 . The programme then went on an indefinite break after Shaw became involved in another television programme , and he and Seagrove expressed a wish for the format of the series to change before they filmed new episodes . By 2009 , the series had officially been cancelled .