Composite image of Polar Expedition Six exterior, as seen in The Thing from Another World (1951).
Polar Expedition Six is a U.S. Arctic research station which appears in the 1951 film The Thing from Another World. The station is operated by the United States.
Background[]
In the 1951 film The Thing from Another World, scientists from the Polar Expedition Six research station observe an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashing to the earth. They assemble a team of men who travel to the crash site and discover it buried in the ice, with a body nearby, frozen in the ice. They excavate the tall body, preserving it in a large ice block and return to the research outpost as a major storm moves in, making communication with the outside world very difficult. The plant creature accidentally thaws out, revives and infiltrates the outpost - attempting to procreate by planting seed pods in the greenhouse and feeding them with blood. The creature is eventually overcome and destroyed by electrocution.
Personnel[]
- Dr. Arthur Carrington - Chief scientist
- Nikki Nicholson - Secretary to Dr. Carrington
- Dr. Redding - Researcher
- Dr. Chapman - Researcher
- Dr. Voorhees - Researcher
- Dr. Olsen - Researcher
- Dr. Auerbach - Researcher
- Dr. Stern - Researcher
- Dr. Wilson - Researcher
Trivia[]
- In the short story Who Goes There?, on which 1951's The Thing from Another World was based, the outpost was called Big Magnet.
- Unlike the later 1982 and 2011 films, the outpost was located in the Arctic, rather than Antarctica.
Gallery[]
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