Podcasts by Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica

152_Vodka_in_a_Vegemite_Jar from 2023-12-01T00:54:17

In 1983 Australian glaciologist Trevor Hamley joined a Soviet traverse from the Russian coastal station, Mirny, to Dome Charlie, high atop the Antarctic plateau. Bouncing about in the back of a ...

151_Jeff_Wilson_interview from 2023-11-27T04:00:27

Australian Antarctic Division alumnus, Jeff Wilson, recounts his experiences at Australian stations and in the Ross Sea.
Road trip with our eldest.
Good company at Anglesea.
Go...

150_Shepherds_of_Heard_Island from 2023-11-20T05:59:26

The ANARE presence at Heard Island runs to 1955 and switches focus to continental Antarctica. 
The Island taught Australians to work on glaciers and to run dog teams, saw John Bechervaise ...

149_Heard_Island_Appendices from 2023-11-09T04:47:16

ANARE occupation at Heard Island ran short but intense, and sometimes in tents. 
In addition to large quantities of wind and sleet the island provided a training ground for Antarctic trave...

148_The_Hope_Bay_Hype from 2023-08-12T11:07:48

Argentina and Britain needle each other over what huts go where around the Antarctica Peninsula and notes of protest change hands at a fevered pace.
Hot heads at low temperatures lead to a...

147_Dr_Hillary_Sebeny from 2023-05-20T05:23:42

Yet another amazing interview through which to inform you and by which to relieve myself of the burden to write and record a chronological narrative episode this month. 
"Ice Coffee": wher...

146 An interview with Professor Nash, another with Marsh, and an important update about the series from 2023-04-01T04:30

Professor Meredith Nash spent two years studying and reporting on the culture within the Australian Antarctic Division.  Their findings, released late in 2022, may prove a turning point in the h...

145_Josh_Jensen_Hercules_Maintainer from 2023-03-13T09:04:02

Josh Jensen spent an austral summer keeping LC-130 Ski Hercules operational out of McMurdo.  I spoke to him about the challenges that throws up and found out the days of boiling a pot of oil ove...

144_Russia_has_re-entered_the_chat from 2023-03-12T08:02:36

Some historical and political context for the Russian return south in Soviet Union form. 
Bolsheviks: form soviets and roll out.

143_Samantha_Hodder_This_Is_Our_Time from 2023-02-01T12:39:32

I haven't interviewed other Antarctic podcasters because that would make for dull content.
"Do you press record?  Wow!  I do, too!  Hey, how good is Audacity?  Antarctica's cold, huh?"
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142_Port_Martin_on_the_continent_and_on_fire from 2023-02-01T01:04:33

Paul Emile-Victor's charges are ashore and charging. 
But wait, there's more.
Call now and get this free base fire valued at over five buildings.

141_France_returns_south from 2023-01-08T01:44:47

Port Martin.
Port Au Francaise.
Port Malloy.
Port Jean d'Arc.
You'd think the French would switch up it with some cognac or cointreau. 

140_Dave_Donnelly_and_really_big_whales from 2023-01-06T23:06:08

If you set an AI process in motion to build a hard as nails nineteenth century seadog you'd likely arrive at Dave Donnelly in ninety-nine percent of your iterations.  Dave looks and moves throug...

139_Interview_with_Professor_McCahey_regarding_sexism_in_Antarctica from 2023-01-03T03:18:56

Professor Daniella McCahey of Texas Tech discusses sexism at Antarctic stations. 




* Except by HamiltonSuites, who should lie on their left side, raise their rig...

138_Ice_Breakers from 2023-01-02T02:41:19

Ice'll kill ya'
That's what I said
Ice'll kill ya'
And then you'll be dead

137_Interviews_about_an_air_crash_long_distance_Antarctic_engagement_and_a_ripper_of_a_new_book_about_Sir_Hubert_Wilkins from 2022-08-03T10:29:57

Thomas Walkington speaks about the wreck of the Pegasus and his time on the ice as part of VXE-6.
Jim Butler showers praise on me and my output after discussing how he engages with Antarct...

136_Post_war_post_war_whaling from 2022-07-05T10:07:43

I wasn't expecting the Greek shipping magnate.

135_NBSAE_part_2 from 2022-06-02T08:44:03

Three members of the NBSAE drown in an accident on the barrier edge. 
Every other member of the NBSAE does their bit in making the project one of the most productive and smooth running exa...

134_NBSAE_Part_1 from 2022-05-22T01:13:44

John Giaever storms it in as a high latitudes can-do-mo-fo with an international team of scientists.  No matter how many committees got involved and put their bureaucratic handbrake on the NBSAE...

133_Would_anyone_like_some_ham from 2022-04-14T08:52:52

The role of ham radio operators in keeping Antarcticans sane through the long dark is given some attention. 
Additional audio of Vivian Fuchs speaking to Donald Milner at the BBC was made ...

132_Chile from 2022-04-02T09:49:26

A brief and patchy history of Chile as context for the nation's expeditions southward in the twentieth century. 

131_Straya_too from 2022-02-09T11:02:16

Heard and Macquarrie Islands: tragedy, rockets, sheep, and ham.

130_Straya from 2021-12-12T06:18:10

The first Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition gets moving.  Led my Campbell, informed by Mawson, and ignoring any potential input from Davis, the first foryas didn't kick all the c...

129_FIDS_1947-8 from 2021-09-07T08:12:32

A mixed bag of achievements and tragedy for the 1948 FIDS.
New faces with big Antarctic careers ahead of them show up in the narrative.

If you are working through the series i...

128_Argentina from 2021-08-18T20:16:32

Where the history of other nations involved in the Antarctic land grab received plenty of attention in the series to date, Argentina only received mention as being close to the Antarctic Peninsu...

127_Crime_in_Antarctica from 2021-07-31T08:18:14

While theft is rare in circumstances where most needs and wants are catered to by management other crimes occur in Antarctica with surprisingly monotonous regularity, given the small numbers of ...

126_Book_reviews_and_interviews_Maori_perspectives_and_ashore_in_the_Kerguelens_and_True_South from 2021-07-24T04:34:56

A formal book review of "With Scott Before the Mast," an informal review of "Operation Deep Freeze II Gooney Birds," and interviews with Associate Professor Priscilla Wehi, Elodie Camprasse, and...

125_RARE_Coda from 2021-07-23T11:35:40

Trail operations, survey flights, tension, and a surprise for the Darlingtons. 
The RARE comes to a close and departs Stonington Island with the aid of the Operation Windmill ice breakers....

124_Religion_in_Antarctica from 2021-07-01T11:02:36

In this episode I fail to respect, let alone defer to, religious beliefs and the artifacts and structures dedicated to various deities' alleged glory while recounting the ongoing story of religi...

123_Stonington_Island_co-existence from 2021-07-01T10:19:33

The Ronnes sulk about the FIDS as the RARE settle in to their digs on Stonington Island but realise they have to Voltron up or get little done.  
George Takei makes his series debut in com...

122_Extended_Kevin_Walton_quotations from 2021-06-01T02:08:29

Worried that you might be feeling cheated on the history front, this month, here's some hefty chunks of trail experiences from the pen of one who lived it. 
Do you want your word hoosh thi...

121_Aviation_futre_past_future_Sean_McBride from 2021-06-01T01:55:02

Sean McBride intends taking electric flight to Antarctic and I am excited about it. 
I'm also excited about my own investigations into heading south to follow in Wilkins and Eilson's prop ...

120_Operation_Windmill from 2021-05-15T06:32:08

US Navy ice breakers get ground control parties ashore to provide fixed points of reference for Operation Highjump aerial photographs. 
Helicopters work ship to Antarctic shore for the fir...

119_Stonington_Collision_Course from 2021-05-13T10:08:12

The RARE draws nearer its destination and the FIDS head out on trail.  Will the confluence of two Antarctic expeditions in the same place at the same time conflict with the laws of physics? 
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118_Operation_Highjump_part_two from 2021-04-30T21:55:26

The largest ever Antarctic expedition runs its course.
The Sennet heads north with its bow in a sling, divers get with the diving, and the DC-3 makes its "Ice Coffee" debut while the Sea B...

117_Operation_Highjump_part_one from 2021-04-29T11:30:55

The United States Navy returns to Antarctica, this time under Admiral Cruzen, though Admiral Byrd was there and waving hard at the cameras and yelling that we shouldn't forget that he's the mayo...

116_Amanda_Zimmerman_and_the_view_from_McMurdo from 2021-04-25T23:40:12

This month, in a very special episode of "Ice Coffee" Amanda Zimmerman shares her insights on life at McMurdo Station.
Timely stuff for those listeners applying for USARP slots for the fir...

115_FIDS_first_iteration_part_2 from 2021-04-07T06:56:51

Large quantities of stores, lumber and conviviality go ashore and become Trepassey House, home to FIDS and their dogs for several subsequent years. 

114_FIDS_first_iteration_part_1 from 2021-03-17T05:28:28

The Tabarin mooted, Marr demurred Base E arises on Stonington Island, five nautical miles from the BGLE hut on Barry Island but two hundred yards from the Johnny-come-five-years-ago East Base. <...

113_RARE_Part_1 from 2021-02-01T01:29:05

Finn Ronne makes ready for his return to Stonington Island, getting away late, in debt and with morale already fraying at the edges. 


My apologies to anyone who downloaded th...

112_Bits from 2020-12-31T02:32:54

With a hundred meg of storage in my name and a lot of audio snippets with nothing better to do I give you the bits episode. 
Mind the neck bolts.
This episode features the first comp...

111_Operation_Tabarin_part_3 from 2020-12-26T12:28:01

Hope Bay's second tranche of winter residents settle in.
Then they head home to a less than heartening reception than their Swedish predecessors experienced, though Taylor didn't die in a ...

110_Professor_Spencer_Davis_optical_phenomena from 2020-12-26T05:45:59

Penguin sex gets the attention it deserves after Murray Levick deprived the world of his observations due to his prudish Victorian era sensibilities.  Professor Lloyd Spencer Davis gives you the...

109_Operation_Tabarin_part_2 from 2020-12-06T10:21:47

James Marr takes his military expedition south and sets up shop on Goudier Island at Port Lockroy in Bransfield House, and also Base A. 

108_Update from 2020-11-30T08:39:02

107_Operation_Tabarin from 2020-11-18T00:33:21

106_Women_in_Antarctica from 2020-08-05T08:47:37

More fuck! than you can poke a stick at.

105_USASE_Part_3 from 2020-08-05T06:17:47

So fuck! it warrants spelling fark!

104_USASE_Part_2 from 2020-08-04T03:47:17

Fuck!

103_USASE_Part_1 from 2020-08-01T11:14:06

Keystone cops.
Byrd at his finest.
Fumes and fuming.

102_Ellsworth_s_last_Antarctic_gasp from 2020-07-11T12:54:29

Lincoln Ellsworth convinces Sir Hubert Wilkins to head south once again and achieves very little. 

101_World_War_reprise_and_foreshadowing_the_cold_war_to_follow from 2020-06-30T07:50:16

The War to End All Wars didn't do what it said on the box and political and economic pressures to fascist all over Europe, China and the Pacific led to another protracted period of bloodshed and...

100_Nazis_on_ice_part_two from 2020-06-02T10:32:08

Nazis don't deserve theme music, soundscapes or even my best efforts at editing out narrating flubs. 

099_Nazis_on_ice_part_one from 2020-05-29T12:09:46

Driven south by the Third Reich's thirst for fat, the Schwabenland (ship version) carries two cool flying boats and a load of fucking nazis to Antarctic shores. 
No house keeping and no ca...

098_BGLE_wrap_up_and_twice_the_normal_number_of_McArthurs from 2020-05-22T03:37:25

The British Graham Land Expedition comes to a close but it's not the last we'll hear of its members or the repercussions of the work they carried out.

097_BGLE_Part_2 from 2020-04-26T04:10:57

The British Graham Land Expedition near the end of their second year in Antarctica.  Much flying, sledging, surveying and the first crossing of Graham Land.
Huzzah.

096_The_British_Graham_Land_Expedition_Part_01 from 2020-03-30T01:35:41

John Rymill picks up where Gino Watkins' death left off and leads the most efficient Antarctic expedition to date. 
Lots of new discoveries, competent seamanship, sledging and flying ensue...

095_Santiago_the_ornithologist_and_John_the_pilot from 2020-02-29T22:41:41

I've traveled with Santiago for three austral summers and his humour and humanity have buoyed my moods while his perspectives on the birds we encountered opened my eyes to biological vistas I'd ...

094_Ellsworth_triumphant_but_still_a_jerk from 2020-02-05T11:23:12

Lincoln Ellsworth's money returns to Antarctica with new pilots, no meteorologist and Norwegians all but ready to throttle him. 
Job's a good 'un, though, in spite of the lack of oomph, pa...

093_Ellsworth_at_his_best from 2020-02-01T04:54:32

Ellsworth's money gets it into its head to be the first to cross Antarctica.
Wilkins, Balchen, Braathen and another polar pig get tangled up in his weak sauce Ahab routine.

So...

092_Ice_Life_Art_and_Unemployment from 2020-01-29T04:19:57

Two interviews with three fellow Drake Passage crossers and a thunder accompanied decompression after recent upheavals.
Anyone who feels hard done by in the third act is welcome to a right...

091_Little_America_Two_Finale from 2019-12-30T09:02:29

In an epic episode spanning an hour and a half and featuring a singing leopard seal, blowing humpbacks and the tuneless honking of the penguins the residents of Little America and Bolling Advanc...

090_Little_America_part_two_part_three from 2019-12-25T04:22:30

Byrd gets exactly what he asks for, what he deserves, and then saved, spoiling the symmetry of an otherwise well mapped story of hubris and punishment in the Greek myth mold. 

089_Little_America_two_part_two from 2019-11-22T13:34:28

Byrd's second expedition re-colonises Byrd's first expedition's digs after lots of digging. 
Gentoo penguins under the hut floor provide ambience. 

088_Little_America_II_part_one from 2019-10-09T23:14:36

Boom!
Two episodes in two days. 
Take that, incomprehensible download statistics.  Let's see me make sense of you now. 

Byrd returns south to finish...    something...  ...

087_What_happens_on_the_ice_ANDRILL_go_boil_your_head_Ed from 2019-10-09T12:37:56

Iceolation and why it's not a big deal these days, a fourteen year old interview with Professor Timothy Naish, and an excuse to use my favourite quote from my favourite robot.

086_Watkins_Wilkins from 2019-09-27T01:41:36

Jeff Maynard returns to the dive hut to discuss the non-voyage of the Nautilus and we receive a visitation from the ghost of an Antarctic feline.
Then the sustained influence of James Word...

085_Norwegians from 2019-08-14T11:23:36

Lars Christensen funds extensive coastal exploration in concert with his whaling exploits.  A decade of Norwegian effort gets compressed into a single chagrined episode. 

084_BANZARE_Part_3 from 2019-07-01T20:27:40

The best acronym in Antarctic history draws to a close and Sir Douglas leaves the southern continent for the last time. 
Similarly the Discovery makes its final transit of the Southern Oce...

083_BANZARE_Mawson_needs_a_gin from 2019-06-03T09:24:06

The first BANZARE voyage plays out with much tension, flying and coal.

082_BANZARE_Mawson_rides_again from 2019-05-13T10:31:27

Old Dux Ipse thought he was the ducks nuts but the BANZARE looks more a dog's breakfast than the dog's bollocks. 
Another not-a-race sees the Discovery racing south on its penultimate voya...

081_Interviews_and_soundscapes from 2019-04-30T05:08:35

Three interviews with staff at Bransfield House, Port Lockroy, one with a descendant of Bartholomew Sulivan, second mate on the Beagle under Fitzroy and Falklands Island farmer, and animal noise...

080_Sam_Edmonds_and_taking_the_piss_out_of_Antarctica from 2019-04-29T11:18:45

Sam Edmonds is good company at high and low latitudes but you'll know that for yourself by the end of the interview, conducted north of Sydney with sulphur crested cockatoo and DeHavilland Canad...

079_Meanwhile_and_Andrew_Atkin_in_interview from 2019-04-26T07:05:27

The world didn't stand still and await the outcomes of Wilkins' and Byrd's efforts with bated breath.  This episode catches you up on Antarctic pertinent developments that the buzz caused by the...

078_Victor_Serov from 2019-04-23T05:52:31

Victor and I spent time in the Zodiacs around the Antarctic Peninsula in late 2018.  This unassuming man quickly demonstrated a tremendous experience in and love of Antarctica and cherished the ...

077_1929_coda... from 2019-03-19T02:00:25

Byrd and Wilkins are done in Antarctica for the 1920s and head north, leaving many loose ends in the snow next to the dog corpses. 
With the depression changing the playing field it would ...

076_Updates from 2019-02-06T07:09:17

Some news and a correction.

075_Byrd_and_Wilkins_1929 from 2019-02-03T10:00:38

Wilkins returns to the arena, negating the worth of the winter spent at Little America.
Byrd gets his pole flight and drunk.

074_Little_America_mid_winter_toast from 2019-01-01T01:56:21

Sly grogging among a large company of over winterers makes Byrd's winter on The Barrier a very different experience to that of previous expeditions.

I set up a paypal account for an...

073_Little_America_1928_part_two from 2018-12-09T13:06:41

Byrd gets on my nerves ninety years ago.

072_1928_part_1 from 2018-11-14T14:52:44

The first of the on site recordings for this Austral summer, episode 072 examines the preparations made to finally take aviation south and the echoes of Scott and Amundsen that resonate through ...

071_ANARE_Club_part_3 from 2018-10-02T00:29:06

The final full episode arising from my trip to Hobart.  Ron Hann, Peter Reid and Rob Nash speak about their time in Antarctica and I bloviate about my favourite podcasts.
Ah, narrowcasting...

070_ANARE_Club_Part_two from 2018-09-30T10:48:32

The second tranche of interviews from my time at the Australian Antarctic Festival in Hobart.  Barry Becker, Denise Alan and Trevor Luff discuss their time with ANARE and I look forward to seein...

069_Whaling_update from 2018-09-30T06:03:37

A look at practical, political and ecological developments arising as the whaling fleet, largely comprising Norwegian vessels and crews, set about the business of ridding the Southern Ocean of t...

068_ANARE_Club_part_one from 2018-09-11T02:45:43

Four of the interviews I recorded at the 2018 Australian Antarctic Festival in Hobart. 
Bob Tompkins, Joe Johnson, Ian Toohill and John Gillies share some fo their experiences in the south...

067_Arctic_Aviation_Part_Three from 2018-09-01T14:56:48

Bringing to a close the trilogy of Arctic aviation episodes, this episode ties up loose ends sufficient to fully set the aviation scene for the first flights in Antarctica. 
I've really en...

066_Polar_aviation_part_two from 2018-08-01T01:09:38

Flying in the Arctic posed a dodgy prospect but faint heart never ended up dead on a tundra. 

065_Polar_aviation_part_one from 2018-07-13T12:07:03

With aircraft offering opportunities to keep the feet dry and singalling a possible end to the miseries of sledging in all its forms, key players were keen to get flying. Efforts in the north re...

064_Fingeewulf from 2018-06-30T17:55:22

063_Quest from 2018-06-30T17:48:53

Sir Ernest makes his final alive foray to South Georgia before making two further Atlantic voyages while dead. 

062_Jeff_Maynard from 2018-06-20T02:24:44

With Sir Hubert Wilkins set to take a prominent role in several episodes I sat down for coffee and a chat with Jeff Maynard, who knows more about Australia's forgotten polar explorer than I know...

061_Lester_and_Bagshawe from 2018-06-04T12:01:43

Boom!
Two episodes in quick succession.
Weren't expecting that, were you?
I was too excited about sharing the story of Lester and Bagshawe to wait a month to get this out and s...

060_Antartica_war_and_its_wake from 2018-06-01T10:48:25

Many Antarctic veterans served in the First World War.  This episode I outline the military service of several of those veterans who will make return appearances in the south.
The Great Wa...

059_ITAE_closer from 2018-05-04T14:13:58

The various parties of the ITAE come in out of the cold and most of them immediately head off to war. 

058_James_Caird_more_than_most from 2018-04-03T13:27:46

Frank Worsley knocks it out of the park, navigating across eight hundred nautical miles of open ocean with four sextant shots.  Tom Crean breaks through thin ice for the final time in our saga.<...

057_Boat_outta_Weddell from 2018-03-17T17:20:31

The Endurance sinks.  Plans form, change, re-form, change again, get discarded, get reinstated and re-form after changing.  Hoosh is the only constant.

056_Into_the_Weddell_Sea from 2018-02-20T12:46:42

Sir Ernest Shackleton returns to Antarctica, this time in the Weddell Sea, where the two preceding voyages got stuck.  Guess what happens.  Go on, guess.

055_Geologists from 2018-01-03T10:36:53

Present day geologists offer their perspectives on the Antarctic Peninsula and I record lots of the bow pushing through loose pack because it's mesmerising.

054_Ross_Sea_Party_Part_Two from 2018-01-01T12:26:55

The Ross Ice Barrier claims its final victim of the Heroic Age as Joyce, Richards and Wild struggle to get the depot party back to safety, then McMurdo Sound takes two more lives when a gamble o...

053_Ross_Sea_Party_Part_one from 2017-12-27T10:07:33

Shackleton's depot laying party head to the Ross Sea and fight to get food and fuel to the foot of the Beardmore. 
Part one of a two parter recounting one of the most harrowing chapters to...

052_Mixed_Bag from 2017-11-27T12:45:57

Hubert Wilkins makes his first appearance in the Ice Coffee narrative, albeit as a supporting character in someone else's nightmare in the Arctic, and I give you the good oil on sticking to tabl...

051_AAE_Wind_up from 2017-10-24T13:51:03

I've got a few tidbits left to add about the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, and Mawson will be back in the narrative before you know it, but this ties up some loose ends and resolves the cli...

050 The far east party from 2017-09-29T13:03:58

The Cape Denison denizens get their science on and prepare for the spring sledging carnival.
The brown stuff gets closer to the whizzy-bladey thing.

049_Mawson_Macquarie from 2017-08-27T08:06:11

Douglas Mawson gets a lot done in just twelve months.

048_Falling_Southward_Fund from 2017-07-27T11:05:54

I've been offered work in Antarctica and urgently need to renew some certs and get my teeth fixed and get a seafarer's medical and plane tickets and some coffee.
If you've paid all your bi...

047_Filchner from 2017-07-15T13:28:43

Prussian Army lieutenant Wilhelm Filchner led Germany's second expedition in the early 20th century.  While the government stayed largely hands off the expedition committee put their oar in enou...

046_Laborastory_William_Speirs_Bruce from 2017-06-06T02:25:17

In April 2017 I reprised my take on William Speirs Bruce's role in our present day understanding of Antarctica at the Spotted Mallard.  The audience were teh awesomes so I let them eat cake.

045_The_Norwegian_and_the_Pole from 2017-06-06T00:41:16

Dogs make all the difference in getting to the South Pole and back.  With Amundsen's triumph, no-one would ever bother going to the Pole agai...
Hey.
Wait.
Why are people still...

044_Amundsen from 2017-05-31T19:14:27

Roald Amundsen returns to the narrative and takes pole position, showing the world what you can achieve if you don't give a stuff about science or people. 

043_What_not_to_not_wear from 2017-04-03T12:44:12

What's this?
Three episodes in quick succession?
Blame the hosting service download counter.  I'm now obsessed with topping last month's total downloads.  This was easy when I only h...

042_Shirase from 2017-04-03T12:26:41

Japan comes in out of the cold and heads back out into the cold again.
Nobu Shirase - an explorer of honour and determination, now available in ship form. 

041_Pemmican_WTF? from 2017-03-31T12:21:07

Pemmican and sledging biscuit have received several mentions in the series and it's high time I let you in on what I'm on about.

040_The_BAE_comes_to_an_end from 2017-03-01T12:08:05

The Eastern Party make their dogged way back to Cape Evans while Atkinson led teams onto the barrier to look for evidence of the pole party. 
The Terra Nova arrives and the BAE heads home....

039_BAE_Eastern_Party from 2017-02-11T02:02:03

Scott's 3IC, Lt. Victor Campbell, fares poorly on every front except the important one.  Little came of the BAE's Eastern Party's efforts in terms of geology, geography, biology, but everyone su...

038_Terra_Nova_Southern_Party from 2017-01-28T11:50:08

Dammit - it happened again.
This story always ends the same way.
All of the driving forces behind Scott's polar ambition push him to his death.
Poor weather, broken tractors, c...

037_Terra_Nova_Depot from 2016-12-28T12:18:45

Scott leads his team south while Amundsen and Mawson keep his clockwork wound up tight. Stormy seas, pack ice and a four way split in the transport preparations frustrate efforts to meld scienti...

036_Ice_Diving from 2016-11-30T11:57:55

I'm sick of 2016.  A friend just died for stupid reasons and my extended family and many friends are facing life in the USA under president Donald Trump and his cabinet of elite racists.
I...

035_Terra_Nova_BAE_2 from 2016-10-18T19:48:36

A dark clockwork comprising duty, ambition and hurt pride winds up Captain Scott and sets him on his path back to Antarctica.

034_I_am_whaling from 2016-10-02T09:55:27

At the start of the twentieth century whaling in the Southern Ocean was on the uptick.  The players and mechanisms in play held considerable sway in geographic outcomes, with claims and counter ...

033_Upstairs_Downstairs from 2016-09-28T13:05:02

With just seven minutes up my data storage sleeve and some expeditions featuring weird relationships between officers and men in the offing, this seems an opportune time to map the boundary betw...

032_Charcot_Pourqouis_Pas? from 2016-09-13T02:24:42

Charcot leads his second Antarctic expedition aboard a new ship with a new engine.  What could possibly go wrong?
More groundings, more whimsy and more coastline explored.
Well done ...

031_Shackleton_Nimrod_BAE_Philip_Samartzis from 2016-08-31T12:58:26

Ernest Shackleton heads south in a dodgy ship, short on funds and with a flea in his ear from Scott, but manages to get a lot done and get everyone home safely. 
Lots of firsts but the sou...

030_Photography_Sledging_Maladies_Jacinda_Amey from 2016-08-31T12:38:32