A history of human activity in Antarctica
Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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2025-03-06 | Ali Gordon and Solan Jensen: go die in a fire for helping cover up for Hadleigh. | |
2025-02-21 | What do you get if you cross religion with flat Earthers and Antarctica? A cross podcaster and little else. |
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2024-09-10 | Coming back at yer, six months late and barely on topic, episode 157 addresses the increasingly loud and dunderheaded online chatter about escaping society and trying to establish society, only with more ice and surprise cannibalism. Libertarians proba... | |
2024-03-10 | You don't just throw a Trans-Antarctic Expedition or an International Geophysical Year together. These things take planning. Here's some background on the planners and introductions to some of the doers. | |
2023-12-17 | Several years of Macquarie Island winters receive attention as I chill out under a Casuarina after several fraught months. | |
2023-12-15 | I give voice to another almost but not quite lost snippet from "Big Dead Place" and I give the microphone to Adam Fitzgerald who voices the introduction to Jeff Maynard's new book, "The Frontier Below." | |
2023-12-01 | 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 T-55 tank converted into a living quarters/galley/dining s... | |
2023-11-27 | 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. Good food. Good audio. One of the best days 2023 offered up. | |
2023-11-20 | 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 cut his Antarctic teeth and lead the first ascent of Big Ben, an... | |
2023-11-09 | 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 travelers and their dogs. Challenging maritime approaches led to inn... |