Category: Antarctia

What Led to Antarctic Explorer Captain Scott’s Death

March 28, 2022
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott lay cold, frostbitten and dehydrated in a tent in Antarctica. He was accompanied by two companions – Edward Wilson and “Birdie” Bowers. Knowing death was near, he lay in his frigid sleeping bag and scrawled final messages to his friends, loved ones, and supporters. “These rough notes and our dead bodies…

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Shackleton’s Antarctica Misadventure: An Early Example Of Modern Heroism

March 13, 2022
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Commentary In a notable article published on the Forbes, Paolo Gallo, who writes about leadership issues, has argued that “The time has come to change our model of heroism.” Specifically, he argues that “being a hero is no longer a mythical classification reserved for … a few legendary men and women, or worse still, peacocks…

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Antarctic Researchers Discover Largest Nesting Ground of ‘White Blooded’ Icefish in the World 500m Below Weddell Sea

February 24, 2022
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Researchers aboard German research icebreaker Polarstern in February 2021 made an unexpected discovery: the world’s largest icefish nesting ground, located 500 meters (1,650 feet) under the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica. While imaging ocean floor topography using the vessel’s towed video camera sled system, graduate student Lilian Böhringer upon sighting the vast, incredible…

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Total Solar Eclipse to Grace the Skies on December 4—Here’s What You Need to Know:

December 2, 2021
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The extraordinary cosmic event of a total eclipse of the sun will present itself to an exclusive audience on Dec. 4, 2021. Stargazers hoping to witness the moon’s umbra shadow obliterate the solar sphere from view will have to sojourn to the Antarctic—where the eclipse will first appear in the Southern Ocean. It will then…

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