Writing My First Kinda Real Academic Paper About Antarctica And Turns Out I Know Things But Don’t Know

“The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around.” (S. T. Coleridge)

A digital painting based on a 19th century engraving.

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Beautiful C O L D Places by:

© b.simon

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

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‘the seafarer’ (anglo-saxon poem, 8th cent.)

the shipwreck (j.m.w. turner, 1805)

‘the explorer’ (rudyard kipling, 1898)

man proposes, god disposes (edwin henry landseer, 1864)

“the lost city of z”, the new yorker (david grann, 2005)

last photo of george mallory and andrew irvine before their fatal ascent of mt. everest. it is still unknown if they reached the summit. (1924)

john keats (personal letter to j.h. reynolds, April 1817)

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

men don’t die in antarctica like they used to

Flames in the night (by Tobias Hägg) Vestvågøy, Norway