exploration

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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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• 10/3/2021
  

  Latitude: The Pioneering International Mission to Measure the Earth

  by Nicholas Crane

  The scientists and technicians of the Geodetic Mission to the Equator did more than measure a degree of latitude; they showed how a disparate group of human beings from different countries and backgrounds could pool their collective resources and solve problems.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/22/2021
  

  Climate Anxiety and the Return of Arctic Horror

  by Bathsheba Demuth

  As climate change driven by capitalism threatens the polar ice caps, new miniseries return to the themes of arctic exploration, where cold and ice threaten humans and commerce, rather than the other way around. 

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• 3/21/2021
  

  Persevering to Mars

  by Stephen J. Pyne

  In two prior ages of exploration, the work has been inseparable from contact between peoples leading to colonization. Last month's successful landing on Mars may herald an age where technology encourages all people to imagine themselves as equal participants.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8-21-13
  

  Vikings didn’t find Faroes first (they were 500 years late)

  The North Atlantic islands were populated five hundred years earlier than previously thought.

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  8-12-13
  

  The women who 'inspired' polar-explorers Shackleton and Scott

  The wives of Britain's best-known polar explorers inspired them to make their important voyages, a historian has claimed.Kari Herbert claims that Sir Ernest Shackleton only made his first expedition to impress his lover.Miss Herbert, the daughter of the Polar explorer Sir Wally Herbert, said Capt Robert Falcon Scott would "absolutely not" have reached the South Pole without the robust encouragement of his wife, Kathleen.Miss Herbert, who researched the women for her new book Heart of the Hero, said the stories of explorers' wives were "fantastically important" in expeditions to the Antarctic."In the case of Scott, absolutely he would not have gone down to the Antarctic again without Kathleen," she said....

• SOURCE: Toronto Globe and Mail
  8-9-13
  

  Scientists resume search for lost Franklin expedition ships

  The search for the wreckage of the ill-fated Franklin expedition in Canada’s Arctic will resume this weekend.The HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror were lost after an 1845 expedition led by Sir John Franklin disappeared while attempting to find the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean.Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq says a group of scientists will spend six weeks conducting underwater searches using high-tech equipment, including military-grade sonar and remotely operated vehicles....