Pictures From The British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913) + 1993 Suggestion For Long-term Nuclear Waste

Felix Booth – Scientist of the Day

Felix Booth, a British merchant, died Jan. 24, 1850, at age 74.

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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.

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

kids these days just want to be on phone. NO ONE is dying at my antarctic research station

The French Astrolabe and the Zelee caught in Antarctic ice 1838 during the Expedition of Jules Dumont d'Urville, watercolour by A. Mayer 1838

inuit mythology • pukkeenegak

pukkeenegak is the goddess of children, pregnancy, childbirth, and the making of clothes.

No but i think it would be great fun

@flurries-and-frost you ever been the thing'd

A football or rugby game between sailors and officers, in front of HMS Terror, during the Back arctic expedition 1836, by first lieutenant William Smyth 1836

HMS Erebus in the Antarctic, detail of a painting by John Willson Carmichael, 1847 - edit by Canada History