Antarctica

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• 2/22/2023
  

  Arctic Explorer, Nazi-Fighter, Iconoclast: Peter Freuchen's Case for "Most Interesting Man in the World"

  by Reid Mitenbuler

  A biographer contents that an unlikely celebrity from the early twentieth century should inspire people today to take risks and embrace a humanism that doesn't depend on loyalty to party or ideology. While this without-a-net kind of public discussion is increasingly rare today, it's what makes people interesting.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  7-14-17
  

  100-Year-Old Photos Reveal Antarctica Like You've Never Seen It

  Pictures captured by photographer Herbert Ponting in the early 20th century show the coldest continent before climate change took hold.

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• SOURCE: The Independent
  11-3-13
  

  Cannibalism and calculation: a dark story from the white continent

  An Antarctic explorer may have nasty secrets.

• SOURCE: BBC News
  8-13-13
  

  Antarctic: Where 'zombies' thrive and shipwrecks are preserved

  Ernest Shackleton's famous ship, the Endurance, which he had to abandon in 1915 on his ill-fated Antarctic expedition, is probably still in very good condition on the ocean floor.This is one conclusion from research that studied how sunken wood degrades in southern polar waters.Experiments that submerged planks for over a year found they returned to the surface in near-pristine condition.Scientists point to the absence in the region of wood-boring "ship worms"....