Narrative Of An Expedition In H.M.S. Terror, By Captain George Back 1838 After His Arctic Expedition

Taking pictures of penguins during the First Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955)

Planet E A R T H  by :

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Today happens to be the last Friday of the year! Thanks for hanging out with us for 2019. Here’s to 2020.

Let’s make it a great year and do what we can to make this world a better place for everyone. Much love.

Photo via: Nature: Snow Bears

arctic gothic

• There are strange lights in the sky. It is not the Aurora Borealis. You pretend it is the Aurora Borealis.

• Something is eating the polar bears.

• The ice fields seem to go on forever. Perhaps they do.

• You wake up in darkness. You go to sleep in darkness. You exist in darkness.

• Watch out for falling icicles- they’re waiting for you to come within spearing distance.

• Yes, the wolf is howling your name. Do not go outside.

• Every radio station is static. Sometimes whale song plays from a channel with no name.

• A crack in the ice opened up last week. It creaks and groans intermittently. There is no bottom in sight.

• A pale figure stands atop the northernmost snowdrift at 00:59am each night. At 1am it is gone. We are unsure of his motives.

what if instead of visiting some more boring museums and drinking coffee in the small streets of old european cities we went to the antarctic next time??????

In Search of Those Lost

I’m currently super interested in Arctic exploration. This is mostly inspired by the searches for the lost Franklin expedition. 

May they rest in peace.

Aurora Borealis by Frederic Edwin Church, 1865