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University of Minnesota teams up with Google to offer new 360-degree images of Antarctica : UMNews :
University of Minnesota teams up with Google to offer new 360-degree images of Antarctica : UMNews : University of Minnesota
This is a follow-up to the last post - nuts 'n' boltsy. it's a surprise to see Antarctic items in a local news brief. Who knew that Minnesota had a Polar Geospatial Center?
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Antarctic Huts in the Googleverse
Google Allows Visitors to Explore Scott's and Shackleton's Huts
I haven't poked around with it myself, yet, but it appears they've applied their Street View type technology to Cape Evans and Cape Royds. Could be fun! -
VERY Early History: The Polynesians
Info I've been able to find on Polynesian exploration south of New Zealand /Cook Islands: (thanks to Wikipedia - yeah, I know, I know, but the sources cited in the articles on these islands check out):
-Snares Islands/Tini Heke (48"01' S / 166"32' E, 124 mi. SW of NZ): Maori people visited there at some point before 1791. They called the largest ( Read more... ) -
book!
The typo on this ebay listing made me laugh out loud!
Antarctic Challenge: Probing the Mysteries of the Shite Continent -
Erebus
There's a wonderfully atmospheric sort of sound/music/narrative collage on Radio 4 about Franklin's expedition and the attempt to find what became of them.
EREBUS
Written by Jo Shapcott - Produced by Tim Dee
Starring Russell Boulter, David Birrell, Peter Marinker, John Mackay and Jasmine Hyde
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Endurance Radio Doc
Listening to a Shackleton documentary on NPR, it feels like 2000 all over again ...
Walking Out of History: Shackleton's Endurance Expedition
... in fact I wonder, with the intro from a younger-sounding Susan Stamberg, if it is the doc I heard in 2000 ( Read more... ) -
The Last Journey of Frank Wild
Okay, a real post for real now:
Radio 4 has run a program on Frank Wild, his life and the story of his ashes, which are being buried next to Shackleton's on South Georgia. The extra good news is that it's available as a download, so you don't even have to listen to it in the next week!
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Polar Potties
When I saw the headline, I thought it was referring to the people who explore the polar regions, because they could certainly be said to be 'a bit potty' ... but it turns out it's about actual loos in frigid places - it's a fundraising calendar for young polar scientists. A bit of fun for the end of the year, I suppose!
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Ponting's Whaleventure in Glorious Technicolour
A hundred years after it happened ... fifty years after the magazine was published ... it makes it to the front page of BoingBoing!
Wrathful Whale Wednesday
That would be, um, this Herbert Ponting, not Action Man there. Actually, the man in the illustration looks a bit like Levick, but I may be swayed by the hat ...