Tom #Crean, Antarctic explorer, publican & utter #GreatLad, died at the Bon Secour hospital, Cork, on 27 July, 1938. He contracted peritonitis following a delayed operation to deal with his burst appendix. Marine Institute's named a research vessel to honour him. Image: Scott Polar Research Institute

Added a new track to the Terra Nova Playlist: music.youtube.com/watch?v=AF_lEO… This one goes out to the crazy cats of the Second Returning Party, hope you have a nice trip down the Beardmore!

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This seems like a question for Jess of the Arctussy

so much debate about proper masculinity as if this picture of Tom Crean didn’t already exist

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The winter heatwave in Antarctica is continuing for a second month, and presently the heat anomalies have settled over West Antarctica and and the sector of East Antarctica centred on Totten Glacier. 1/2

Have I mentioned that the US edition of Worst Journey Vol.1 is coming out in October?

❄️ Built to support Captain Robert Falcon Scott's National Antarctic Expedition of 1901 – 04, 'Discovery' hut was the first expedition base built on Antarctica’s Ross Island. The hut is significant as it provided life-saving shelter not only for the 'Discovery' expedition, but

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#OTD 1950, polar explorer Patrick Keohane, died aged 71. One of several Irishmen selected by Captain Robert Falcon Scott for the British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' expedition 1910-13, and one of 15 men chosen to accompany Scott for the 900-mile trek to the South Pole.

the horror show of horror shows, the romance of romances, the apocalypse of apocalypses! please watch this, I wish I could see it again for the first time.

Yet another performance of this show which circumstance dictates I must miss. Go see it for me? Maybe if enough people see it on my behalf it will count as though I actually saw it myself. :(

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here comes the sun doo doo doo doo

it's true that they had much less conflict than pretty much any other expedition (thanks mainly to bill) but it is funny that everyone in the immediate aftermath did their damndest to be like [edwardianly, polite] We Shall Not Reveal How Much Teddy Evans Fucking Sucked

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