Adventures of the Blackgang

historicaltimes:

The British National Antarctic Expedition—often called the Discovery expedition—celebrates “Christmas” on June 23, 1902 in the depths of the Antarctic winter

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nemfrog:

Animals of antarctica. . Exploring new fields. 1938. 

hauntedbystorytelling:

Herbert G. Ponting :: Iceberg, Antarctica, ca. 1911 / src: Christie’s

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humanoidhistory:

“The pressure menaced us on all sides.” The HMS Endurance trapped in the ice of Antarctica, 1915, during the legendary Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton. Photographer Frank Hurley, who captured this image,  wrote, “The ice mill is in motion again. Immense slabs are rafted, balance a moment, then topple down and are over-ridden by a chaos of crunched fragments…the line of pressure now assaults the ship and she is heaved to the crest of the ridge like a toy.” The Endurance sank on November 21, 1915.

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The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966) movie poster

Operation Deep Freeze, a scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers unusual tree specimens. When specimens are shipped out for further study, the trees are accidentally introduced to a south seas Navy base, soon revealing themselves to be killer, acid-secreting monsters that live by night. Starring Mamie Van Doren

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Herbert Ponting, Antarctica , photograph, c. 1911

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bigmapblog:

Map: Maps of Shackleton’s 1907-1909 Antarctic Expedition originally posted to the BIG Map Blog.

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endilletante:

atlas_small by eyemagazine on Flickr.

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dendroica:

n246_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

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The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror. v.1.
London,E. W. Janson,1844-1875.
biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31178

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joncarling:

‘The Merguins Watch’ Jon Carling

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rhamphotheca:

Megalestris maccormicki (Saund.) = now South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)

from Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, Vol. 25, Plate I, 1896, by Joseph Smit

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theluxuryoflife:

Antarctica (by TeodorB)

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scientificillustration:

n672_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Oceanic birds of South America. v.1.
New York :Macmillan Co. :c1936.
biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45089

geographystuff:

#2 Antarctica

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Antarctica

An orthographic projection of NASA’s Blue Marble data set (1 km resolution global satellite composite). “MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s AVHRR sensor—the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.” Image was generated using a custom C program for handling the Blue Marble files, with orthographic projection formulas from MathWorld.

Note: this image has been manually modified to fill in an area of black pixels in the ocean, in the upper right quadrant. The black pixels are presumed to be due to missing data in the land/sea mask used in making the original Blue Marble image.

5 October 2006 

Dave Pape - using Blue Marble data from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2433