133_Would_anyone_like_some_ham
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
Release Date: 04/14/2022
160_Two_Years_at_Mawson_Station
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
Bob Dovers does sterling OIC work setting the rhythm and mode of Mawson Station winters, though at considerable cost to his health. John Bechervaise continues in the grooves established by Dovers, cementing Australia's toehold in the cold and the meson telescopes in place. Phillip Law goes in to bat against bureaucrats cratting for all their bureau's worth and manages to keep the focus on science, though some of his ideas about what to do with an Australian territorial claim once his efforts have gained some traction for one are a bit odd in a present day context. A busy...
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159_Interviews_from_the_Australian_Antarctic_Festival_2024
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
I recorded these interviews at the Australian Antarctic Festival in August 2024. I release them now in lieu of historical narrative episodes I should have ready but don't because reasons.
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158_Mawson_Station
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
Phil Law and J. Lauritsen Lines join forces to finally get the ANARE a continental toehold.
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157_The_Final_Experiment
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
What do you get if you cross religion with flat Earthers and Antarctica? A cross podcaster and little else.
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157_Libertarians_on_ice
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
Coming back at yer, six months late and barely on topic, episode 157 addresses the increasingly loud and dunderheaded online chatter about escaping society and trying to establish society, only with more ice and surprise cannibalism. Libertarians probably don't listen to my output, but any that do can dig a well, actually, and throw themselves down it before getting in touch to try to correct me on where I got their politics, reading preferences, and predictions about their Antarctic ventures wrong.
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155_TAE_and_IGY_foreshadowing
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
You don't just throw a Trans-Antarctic Expedition or an International Geophysical Year together. These things take planning. Here's some background on the planners and introductions to some of the doers.
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154_Macquarie_Island_catch_up
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
Several years of Macquarie Island winters receive attention as I chill out under a Casuarina after several fraught months.
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153_A_furtive_summiting_And_The_Frontier_Below
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
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 introduction to Jeff Maynard's new book, "The Frontier Below."
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152_Vodka_in_a_Vegemite_Jar
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
In 1983 Australian glaciologist Trevor Hamley joined a Soviet traverse from the Russian coastal station, Mirny, to Dome Charlie, high atop the Antarctic plateau. Bouncing about in the back of a T-55 tank converted into a living quarters/galley/dining space/lab, recording locations on audio cassette tape, wielding a hammer, and ignoring the ideological and political drivers of the cold war in the name of survival, camaraderie, and science, Trevor experienced Antarctica in a unique context at a unique point in history. His book, "Vodka in a Vegemite Jar" recounts his experiences during the...
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151_Jeff_Wilson_interview
Ice Coffee: the history of human activity in Antarctica
Australian Antarctic Division alumnus, Jeff Wilson, recounts his experiences at Australian stations and in the Ross Sea. Road trip with our eldest. Good company at Anglesea. Good food. Good audio. One of the best days 2023 offered up.
info_outlineThe role of ham radio operators in keeping Antarcticans sane through the long dark is given some attention.
Additional audio of Vivian Fuchs speaking to Donald Milner at the BBC was made available by Thomas Henderson of Graceful Willow Productions and with the permission of Jules Madey (http://www.gwillow.com/)
The music closing out this episode is "Can you hear me: part 1" composed by Wally Gunn (http://www.wallygunn.com/) and performed by Passepartout Duo (https://passepartoutduo.com/).