Pole To Pole - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• Palin travelled through the following places: the North Pole, Greenland, Norway, Finland, the Soviet Union (now Estonia, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine), Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Chile, Antarctica, and the South Pole.

• Palin made this journey during a period of great political upheaval in some of the places he travelled through. He left the Soviet Union days before the coup and a few months before its collapse, Ethiopia after the fall of the Derg, Zambia after the ousting of long-time president Kenneth Kaunda, and South Africa months after the abolition of apartheid.

• During the Finland portion of the trip, Palin is shown singing a verse from the song "Finland", a piece of music he performed in 1980 on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album.