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The history of human activity in Antarctica
A rambling, meandering episode full of happenstance reminiscences that barely ties in to the Antarctic history thread of this series through...
An interview with Christine Rees about finding her path south through water chemistry lab skills. Better living through chemistry indeed!
Part two of my coverage of the British, Argentine, and Chilean attempts to bolster national pride in and international recognition of their...
The first half hour of a lengthy and bumpy adventure in trying to recount what happened around the Antarctic Peninsula in the first half of...
Bob Dovers does sterling OIC work setting the rhythm and mode of Mawson Station winters, though at considerable cost to his health. John Bec...
I recorded these interviews at the Australian Antarctic Festival in August 2024. I release them now in lieu of historical narrative episodes...
Phil Law and J. Lauritsen Lines join forces to finally get the ANARE a continental toehold.
What do you get if you cross religion with flat Earthers and Antarctica? A cross podcaster and little else.
Coming back at yer, six months late and barely on topic, episode 157 addresses the increasingly loud and dunderheaded online chatter about e...
You don't just throw a Trans-Antarctic Expedition or an International Geophysical Year together. These things take planning. Here's some bac...
Several years of Macquarie Island winters receive attention as I chill out under a Casuarina after several fraught months.
I give voice to another almost but not quite lost snippet from "Big Dead Place" and I give the microphone to Adam Fitzgerald who voices the...
In 1983 Australian glaciologist Trevor Hamley joined a Soviet traverse from the Russian coastal station, Mirny, to Dome Charlie, high atop t...
Australian Antarctic Division alumnus, Jeff Wilson, recounts his experiences at Australian stations and in the Ross Sea. Road trip with our...
The ANARE presence at Heard Island runs to 1955 and switches focus to continental Antarctica. The Island taught Australians to work on glaci...
ANARE occupation at Heard Island ran short but intense, and sometimes in tents. In addition to large quantities of wind and sleet the island...
Argentina and Britain needle each other over what huts go where around the Antarctica Peninsula and notes of protest change hands at a fever...
Yet another amazing interview through which to inform you and by which to relieve myself of the burden to write and record a chronological n...
Professor Meredith Nash spent two years studying and reporting on the culture within the Australian Antarctic Division. Their findings, rele...
Josh Jensen spent an austral summer keeping LC-130 Ski Hercules operational out of McMurdo. I spoke to him about the challenges that throws...
Some historical and political context for the Russian return south in Soviet Union form. Bolsheviks: form soviets and roll out.
I haven't interviewed other Antarctic podcasters because that would make for dull content. "Do you press record? Wow! I do, too! Hey, how go...
Paul Emile-Victor's charges are ashore and charging. But wait, there's more. Call now and get this free base fire valued at over five buildi...
Port Martin. Port Au Francaise. Port Malloy. Port Jean d'Arc. You'd think the French would switch up it with some cognac or cointreau.
If you set an AI process in motion to build a hard as nails nineteenth century seadog you'd likely arrive at Dave Donnelly in ninety-nine pe...
Professor Daniella McCahey of Texas Tech discusses sexism at Antarctic stations. * Except by HamiltonSuites, who should lie on their left si...
Ice'll kill ya' That's what I said Ice'll kill ya' And then you'll be dead
Thomas Walkington speaks about the wreck of the Pegasus and his time on the ice as part of VXE-6. Jim Butler showers praise on me and my out...
I wasn't expecting the Greek shipping magnate.
Three members of the NBSAE drown in an accident on the barrier edge. Every other member of the NBSAE does their bit in making the project on...
John Giaever storms it in as a high latitudes can-do-mo-fo with an international team of scientists. No matter how many committees got invol...
The role of ham radio operators in keeping Antarcticans sane through the long dark is given some attention. Additional audio of Vivian Fuchs...
A brief and patchy history of Chile as context for the nation's expeditions southward in the twentieth century.
Heard and Macquarrie Islands: tragedy, rockets, sheep, and ham.
The first Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition gets moving. Led my Campbell, informed by Mawson, and ignoring any potential inp...
A mixed bag of achievements and tragedy for the 1948 FIDS. New faces with big Antarctic careers ahead of them show up in the narrative. If y...
Where the history of other nations involved in the Antarctic land grab received plenty of attention in the series to date, Argentina only re...
While theft is rare in circumstances where most needs and wants are catered to by management other crimes occur in Antarctica with surprisin...
A formal book review of "With Scott Before the Mast," an informal review of "Operation Deep Freeze II Gooney Birds," and interviews with Ass...
Trail operations, survey flights, tension, and a surprise for the Darlingtons. The RARE comes to a close and departs Stonington Island with...
In this episode I fail to respect, let alone defer to, religious beliefs and the artifacts and structures dedicated to various deities' alle...
The Ronnes sulk about the FIDS as the RARE settle in to their digs on Stonington Island but realise they have to Voltron up or get little do...
Worried that you might be feeling cheated on the history front, this month, here's some hefty chunks of trail experiences from the pen of on...
Sean McBride intends taking electric flight to Antarctic and I am excited about it. I'm also excited about my own investigations into headin...
US Navy ice breakers get ground control parties ashore to provide fixed points of reference for Operation Highjump aerial photographs. Helic...
The RARE draws nearer its destination and the FIDS head out on trail. Will the confluence of two Antarctic expeditions in the same place at...
The largest ever Antarctic expedition runs its course. The Sennet heads north with its bow in a sling, divers get with the diving, and the D...
The United States Navy returns to Antarctica, this time under Admiral Cruzen, though Admiral Byrd was there and waving hard at the cameras a...
This month, in a very special episode of "Ice Coffee" Amanda Zimmerman shares her insights on life at McMurdo Station. Timely stuff for thos...
Large quantities of stores, lumber and conviviality go ashore and become Trepassey House, home to FIDS and their dogs for several subsequent...