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- 1 2 3 Trenchard-Smith, Brian (23 December 2022). "ARCTIC BLAST – It's finally here, 12 years after I shot this movie". Brian Trenchard Smith.
- ↑ "Arctic Blast". National Film and Sound Archive. 2010.
- ↑ "Blast of Hollywood for Hobart". ABC Online. 29 August 2009.
- ↑ "Arctic Blast begins Tas shoot". If Magazine. September 7, 2009.