Posted in Historical on Dec 29th, 2009 No Comments »
There’s a bunch of photos of the Dome Deconstruction at SouthPoleStation.com. I lived in the Dome for a year, surrounded by mattress-covered roofs and frozen boxes of rump roast. With all the weird little buildings inside and compiled artifacts, the Dome was quite a character compared to the new station with its psychologically-uplifting [...]
Posted in Historical, Photos, Politics on May 9th, 2009 No Comments »
Posted in Historical on Mar 12th, 2009 No Comments »
From Michael Robinson’s blog, TimeToEatTheDogs.com:
[Frederick Jackson Turner] linked the frontier to the story of American progress, arguing that it rejuvenated American culture by placing pioneers into contact with the wild, savage world at the edges of civilization. In the process, pioneers had to break from the strictures of the civilization they left behind and re-imagine [...]
Posted in Historical, Media, Popular Antarctica on Jan 20th, 2009 4 Comments »
Exploration is the act of searching or traveling a terrain for the purpose of discovery, e.g. of unknown people, including space (space exploration), for oil, gas, coal, ores, caves, water (Mineral exploration, or prospecting), or information.
Although exploration has existed as long as human beings, its peak is seen as being during the Age of Discovery [...]
Posted in Grapevine, Historical, News on Jan 11th, 2009 No Comments »
From Big Blue Globe:
Effective immediately, B-063 housing the Bowling Alley – Weight Gym -Ceramics Room – Boulder Room and Craft Room is closed to all personnel. Do not enter the building for any reason.
A cross member structural beam has suffered a failure that has resulted in the floor sagging approximately six inches. All of the [...]
Posted in Historical, Media, News, Politics on Nov 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Arrivals at the bottom of the world quadrupled from 40 in the 2003-04 season to 164 last year, statistics from the United States base at the pole say.
“They come and they come,” US National Science Foundation representative Jerry Marty told The Antarctic Sun.
The US Antarctic Program was trying to work out how to manage the [...]
Posted in Historical, Stories and Interviews on Aug 19th, 2008 No Comments »
The scariest moments of my life have not been in the wilderness, but in the cities.
Link
Posted in Historical on Aug 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
This blog describes what it’s like to spend time in Antarctica conserving artefacts from the explorer’s hut left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1908.
Update:
What does this thing do?
Posted in Historical, Photos on Jul 21st, 2008 No Comments »
…sheep being herded (flocked) past the South Pole Inn at Anascaul, Co. Kerry.
Irish exploration hero Tom Crean ran this pub after he returned for expeditions to the Antarctic with Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Link to Douglas Bray’s photos
Link to NutsyFagan’s Flickr photos
Posted in Historical, Politics on Jun 26th, 2008 4 Comments »
Chile is to Antarctica as God is to Man.